thus
pronunciation
How to pronounce thus in British English:
UK [ðʌs]
How to pronounce thus in American English:
US [ðʌs]
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- Noun:
- an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
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- Adverb:
- (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
- in the way indicated
Word Origin
- thus
- thus: [OE] Thus is something of a mystery word. It presumably belongs to the family of words (that, there, etc) that go back to the prehistoric Germanic demonstrative base *tha-, but how its fits into the family tree is not clear. Its only close relative is Dutch dus ‘thus’.
- thus (adv.)
- Old English þus "in this way, as follows," related to þæt "that" and this; from Proto-Germanic *thus- (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian thus, Middle Dutch and Dutch dus), from PIE *to-.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It was not always thus .
- 2. Thus the legend was born .
- 3. Have ye ever spoken thus ?
- 4. Thus began a violent three-year battle with my mother .
- 5. Their quality is thus rather uneven .