thame

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/ˈteɪm/

pronoun

Them.

OriginMiddle English thame →
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Meanings

thame1

pronoun
  1. ScotlandobsoleteThem.

    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
    1 more example

    […] 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

Thame2

proper noun
  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

thame · pronoun

  1. Middle Englishthame
  2. Middle Englishthame
  3. Englishthame

Inherited from Middle English thame.

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Thame · proper noun

See Thames, of which it is a tributary.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

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Anagrams

themameathMehtaHatemHamettameh
Cite this entry
APA

thame. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thame

MLA

“thame.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thame. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thame,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thame.

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