Meaning & use
thou
An old-fashioned word for 'you', used when speaking to one person as the subject of a sentence.
See it in a sentence
The old vow begins, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'
In the play, the character asks, 'Wherefore art thou, my love?'
A note on using this word
Survives mainly in religious texts, older literature, and some regional dialects; 'thee' is the object form.
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