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thame

/ˈteɪm/

thame pronoun: them.

Pronoun

thame

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) Them.
    • And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to the horne […]1797, Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, page 180
    • […] that we communicat with thame in nathing that may appeir to manteane or defend thame […]1846, Thomas M'Cri et al., Lives of the Scottish Reformers, page 190

Proper noun capitalized: Thame

Thame

  1. A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which flows into the River Thames at Dorchester-on-Thames.
    • Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.1906, Geraldine Mitton, chapter IV, in The Thames, London: A. & C. Black
  2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, by the above river (OS grid ref SP7006).

Origin of thame

Inherited from Middle English thame.

See Thames, of which it is a tributary.

Words formed from thame

  • thameselves

Questions about thame

What does thame mean?
Thame means them.
What part of speech is thame?
Thame can be a pronoun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce thame?
Thame is pronounced /ˈteɪm/.

Words near thame in the dictionary

  1. Tham
  2. thamakau
  3. thamakaus
  4. Thamar
  5. Thambalnu
  6. thame
  7. thameng
  8. thamengs
  9. Thames
  10. Thames barge
  11. Thames barges

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