THOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thou mean? 

• THOU (noun)
  The noun THOU has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

  Familiarity information: THOU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard

Hypernyms ("thou" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thou"):

millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))

 Context examples 

Thou hast brushed it against some wall, coquin!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This deed of thine shall cost thee all thou art worth.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Thou knowest the place, where the wall is broken and high.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Man,” I cried, “how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Good! Then I shall rest happy, and be sure that thou givest me all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yes, Tom; thou must fight for it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was an expression of perfect confidence, of absolute self-surrender, as though he said: "I put myself into thy hands. Work thou thy will with me."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And the clergyman, who had not lifted his eyes from his book, and had held his breath but for a moment, was proceeding: his hand was already stretched towards Mr. Rochester, as his lips unclosed to ask, Wilt thou have this woman for thy wedded wife?—when a distinct and near voice said—The marriage cannot go on: I declare the existence of an impediment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We all know the difference between the pronouns he or she and thou, the plainest spoken amongst us; we all feel the influence of a something beyond common civility in our personal intercourse with each other—a something more early implanted.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At last, however, by touching a secret spring, an inner compartment will open—a roll of paper appears—you seize it—it contains many sheets of manuscript—you hasten with the precious treasure into your own chamber, but scarcely have you been able to decipher 'Oh! Thou—whomsoever thou mayst be, into whose hands these memoirs of the wretched Matilda may fall'—when your lamp suddenly expires in the socket, and leaves you in total darkness.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)