those
1 antonym for those — opposites grouped by meaning.
Determiner — Used before a plural noun to point to people or things that are further away or have already been mentioned, as the plural of that.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. determiner
Used before a plural noun to point to people or things that are further away or have already been mentioned, as the plural of that.
“Those trees over there are oak.”
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2. pronoun
Used on its own to refer to plural people or things that are further away or have already been mentioned, as the plural of that.
“Those are the keys I lost.”
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How to use those
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Those is a basic, everyday word used equally in speech and writing.
Etymology
Those developed in Middle English from thos, an altered form of tho, an old word for the or those. The final s was added partly by analogy with thes, the ancestor of these.
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