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What is another word for those? Here is its meaning, with related words and examples.

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.”

Opposites

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.”

Opposites

How to use those

The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.

those days those kinds of things one of those days those people

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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Frequently asked questions

What does those mean?
Those is the plural form of that, used to point to people or things further away or already mentioned.
What is the plural of that?
The plural of that is those.
What is the difference between these and those?
These points to things close to the speaker, while those points to things further away or already referred to.

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