tu — meaning in English

English meaning

• thee pron Archaic form of "you," used as the object of a verb or preposition (the object form of "thou").
• thou pronoun An old-fashioned or poetic word for "you," used when speaking to one person.
• you pronoun The person or people being spoken or written to.

Senses

tu is used for these senses in English:

• thee (now, chiefly, archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]
• thou (archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) . [chiefly up to early 17th c.]
• you (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

thou — full definition

1. pronoun An old-fashioned or poetic word for "you," used when speaking to one person.
2. noun A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch, used in engineering.
3. noun Informal shorthand for "a thousand," especially of money.

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