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Definitions for THOUGH
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thoughadverb

    (postpositive) however

    "it might be unpleasant, though"

Wiktionary

  1. thoughadverb

    Despite that; however.

    I will do it, though.

  2. thoughadverb

    Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.

    "Man, it's hot in here." "Isn't it, though?"

  3. thoughconjunction

    Despite the fact that; although.

    Though it's risky, it's worth taking the chance.

  4. thoughconjunction

    If, that, even if.

    We shall be not sorry though the man die tonight.

  5. Etymology: thagh, from þeah, later superseded in many dialects by though, from * (later þó), both from þauh, from to-. Akin to þah "though", þoh, doch, doh (doch). More at that.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Thoughconjunction.

    Etymology: þeah , Saxon; thauh, Gothick.

    Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. John Milton.

    The sound of love makes your soft heart afraid,
    And guard itself, though but a child invade. Edmund Waller.

    I can desire to perceive those things that God has prepared for those that love him, though they be such as eye hath not seen, ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive. John Locke.

    Though the name of abstracted ideas is attributed to universal ideas, yet this abstraction is not great. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded. Gen. xl. 10.

    You shall not quit Cydaria for me:
    ’Tis dangerous though to treat me in this sort,
    And to refuse my offers, though in sport. Dryden.

    A good cause wou’d do well though;
    It gives my sword an edge. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

ChatGPT

  1. though

    "Though" is a conjunction used to introduce an idea that contrasts or opposes the previous statement, allowing for the inclusion of an alternative perspective or additional information. It signals a subtle shift in thought or introduces a contrasting viewpoint.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Though

    granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if

  2. Thoughadverb

    however; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Though

    thō, conj. admitting: allowing: even if notwithstanding. [Lit. 'on that' (condition), A.S. ðeáh, ðéh; cog. with Goth. thau-h, Ice. thó, Ger. doch; from the stem of the.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'THOUGH' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #319

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'THOUGH' in Written Corpus Frequency: #267

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'THOUGH' in Adverbs Frequency: #102

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of THOUGH in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of THOUGH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of THOUGH in a Sentence

  1. Karen Lu:

    Any surgery carries risk … so you do not want to enter any surgery without being thoughtful, the risk of a salpingectomy to someone that is already undergoing surgery, though, I would say is minimal.

  2. Robert Schwarz:

    Not unlike soldiers, when they come home, and even though they're, quote, safe, their bodies are conditioned to react under enormous stress, there's a whole series of biochemical reactions that go on. It's not just an emotional response.

  3. Henry Anatole Grunwald:

    Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

  4. Hilary Friedman:

    Violence like this rarely ever loses its emotional power, people still viscerally respond to graphic war scenes even though they have been portrayed multiple times.

  5. Charles Moore:

    My job is always to tell people what Mrs Thatcher did do and think rather than to speculate on what she might have done because I don't know what she might have done, the whole time she was in office she supported our membership though with increasing lack of enthusiasm and after she left office she privately thought we ought to leave and told me that.

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