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tho'

tho' conjunction: though.

Conjunction

tho'

  1. (archaic, poetic) Though.
    • […] I again conveyed his Key into his Pocket, and counterfeiting Sleep, tho’ I never once cloſed my Eyes, lay in Bed till after he aroſe and went to Prayers, an Exerciſe to which I had long been unaccuſtomed.1749, Henry Fielding, “In which the Man of the Hill begins to relate his History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, page 244

Adverb

tho' (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Though.

Questions about tho'

What does tho' mean?
Tho' means though.
What part of speech is tho'?
Tho' can be a conjunction or an adverb.

Words near tho' in the dictionary

  1. thnetopsychist
  2. thnetopsychists
  3. thnk
  4. thnx
  5. tho
  6. tho'
  7. tho't
  8. tho'ts
  9. Tho.
  10. thoa
  11. thoan

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