Tho

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ðəʊ/
• US IPA: /ðoÊŠ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā ("the, those", plural.), from Proto-Germanic *þai ("those"), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só ("that").

Article

article

1. (obsolete) The (plural form); those.

Full definition of tho

Pronoun

1. (obsolete) Those; they.

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā ("then, when"), from Proto-Germanic *þa- ("that"), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só ("that").

Adverb

1. (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare
  Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe
  Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.

Conjunction

1. (dialectal) When.

American English; Alteration of though.

Adverb

1. (informal, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of though
• 2009 , John Hough , Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg Chapter , I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, …

Anagrams

• hot , HOT