THE
\ðˈə], \ðˈə], \ð_ˈə]\
Definitions of THE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
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By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; - used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.
By Oddity Software
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A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
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By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; - used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Belonging to a distinct and definite class.
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By this; for this; to this extent; a modifier of words in the comparative degree; as, the sooner the better; i. e., by as much as it is sooner, by so much it will be better.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Denoting a certain person or thing, and used before adjectives in the comparative and superlative degree.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A word placed before nouns, or nouns preceded by adjectives, to point them out and limit their signi-fication; usually called the definite article, but is really a demonstrative adjective, and only a softened form of that; used before adjectives in the comparative and superlative degrees. Note.-In poetic compositions, the e in often cut of before a vowel thus, th, and also the he, as t'other.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
