What does "thing" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats.
2. 3.An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. Ye meads and groves, unsonscious things! Cowper.
3. 4.A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. [And Jacob said] All these things are against me. Gen. xlii.
4. 5.Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matt. xxi.
5. 6.4. A portion or part; something. Wieked men who understand any thing of wisdom. Tillotson.
6. 7.A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt. See, sons, what things you are! Shak. The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift.
7. 8.pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.] Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. And them she gave her moebles and her thing. Chaucer. Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English, and is still heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in careful composition. In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously. Chaucer. Hearkening his minstrels their things play. Chaucer.
8. 9.(Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.
9. 10.[In this sense pronounced tîng.] In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly. Longfellow. Things personal. (Law) Same as Personal property, under Personal. -- Things real. Same as Real property, under Real.