through
pronunciation
How to pronounce through in British English:
UK [θruː]
How to pronounce through in American English:
US [θruː]
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- Adjective:
- having finished or arrived at completion
- of a route or journey etc.; continuing without requiring stops or changes
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- Adverb:
- from one end or side to the other
- from beginning to end
- over the whole distance
- to completion
- in diameter
- throughout the entire extent
Word Origin
- through
- through: [OE] Through comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *thurkh, which also produced German durch and Dutch door. Its ultimate source was the Indo-European base *tr-, which also produced Latin trans ‘across’. Thorough is historically the same word as through.=> nostril, thorough, thrill
- through (prep., adv.)
- late 14c., metathesis of Old English þurh, from Proto-Germanic *thurkh (cognates: Old Saxon thuru, Old Frisian thruch, Middle Dutch dore, Dutch door, Old High German thuruh, German durch, Gothic þairh "through"), from PIE root *tere- (2) "to cross over, pass through, overcome" (cognates: Sanskrit tirah, Avestan taro "through, beyond," Latin trans "beyond," Old Irish tre, Welsh tra "through"). Not clearly differentiated from thorough until early Modern English. Spelling thro was common 15c.-18c. Reformed spelling thru (1839) is mainly American English.
Example
- 1. The brain learns through experience .
- 2. One way is through trade .
- 3. It generates money through advertising .
- 4. Shouted a voice through the keyhole .
- 5. Through the narrow aisles of pain .