thro
kind
archaic word
modern equivalent
through
part of speech
preposition
meaning for a pupil
Through; from one side of something to the other. tree →
how it differs from today
An old short spelling of "through"; today we write through in full.
examples
- They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so rich and fine, that they seemed to surpass one another. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
- Their father and mother seeing them busy at their work, got from them by degrees, and then ran away from them all at once, along a by-way, thro' the winding bushes. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
- As she was going thro' the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he durst not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
primary record
through
tests
rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 9 (Torah 0, tales 9, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)
Trees and pragmatics
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