they
they is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matt. v.
- 2.Note: They is used indefinitely, as our ancestors used man, and as the French use on; as, they say (French on dit), that is, it is said by persons not specified.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accord
- adage
- admitted
- all
- amity
- and
- aphorism
- aphoristic
- apophthegm
- apothegm
- assumption
- axiom
- axiomatic
- belief
- bloodless
- blown
- byword
- call
- calm
- calumet
- common
- commonplace
- conclusion
- concord
- desert
- dictum
- dove
- dovish
- down
- fact
- faith
- first
- formula
- friendship
- gnomic
- golden
- halcyon
- harmony
- hath
- her
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is they.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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