Meaning & use
hath
Archaic third-person singular present tense of 'have,' used in older or biblical English.
See it in a sentence
The old verse reads, 'He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.'
The play's narrator declares, 'Fortune hath smiled upon our house tonight.'
A note on using this word
Hath survives today only in quotations, poetry, religious texts, and deliberately archaic or humorous writing.
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