th'

/ð//ðə/

A form of the — ...because it has already been mentioned, is to be completely specified in the same sentence, or very shortly thereafter.

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Meanings

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  1. abbreviationarchaiccolloquialcontractionpoeticContraction of the.

    HOW OLD’S TH’ BOY?

    1915 September 5, [Merrill] Blosser, “‘Freckles’”, in The Pittsburg Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., →OCLC, Comic Section, page [3], column 1
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    And well beſeemes all knights of noble name, / That couett in th’immortall booke of fame / To be eternized, […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 152

    Maſt. Good: Speake to th’Mariners: fall too’t, yarely, or we run our ſelues a ground, beſtirre, beſtirre.

    1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1, column 1

    Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t:

    1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 217, column 1

    New life and joy th’ expanding floweret feels: / His pitying Mistress mourns, and mourning heals!

    1796–1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “[Poems Collected in 1796–1797.] Poems of 1976.”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge […], volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 119
pronoun
  1. abbreviationarchaiccontractionContraction of thou.

    1. Th’art kinde.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 132, column 1
  2. abbreviationcolloquialcontractionContraction of there.

    She crossed her hand an’ turned her face up like a bird does, only th’ ain’t no birds what can sing like she did; seemed like she was n’t a‐doin’ of it at all,—voice came out of itself, like ’s if ’t was just a waitin’ for a change to git out.

    1891 Feb, Edith Brower, “Treshornish”, in The Overland Monthly, volume XVII, number 98, San Francisco: The Overland Monthly Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135
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“th'.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/th'. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “th',” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/th'.

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