those
Etymology

From Middle English thos, alteration of tho ("the; those"), equivalent to tho + -s, partly by analogy with thes ("these"), whose final -s is original and not a plural ending.

Pronunciation Determiner
  1. plural form of that
    Those bolts go with these parts.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Luke 1:1 ↗:
      Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
      When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Pronoun
  1. plural form of that
    those who serve [those persons who serve]
    don't touch those [those objects over there]
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