Dictionary

such en · DET

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /sʌt͡ʃ/
• /sɪt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)
• /sɛt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)
• /sʊt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Meanings

1. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
   • Really? Unfortunately, my mind refuses to bring any such memory forward.
   • After "reiterate" do not use "(yet) again" and other such expressions.
   • Why would you do such a thing?
   • I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.
   • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
   • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • Adopting such titles as “Wild Bill” and “Pecos Pete,” Canadian dominants began practicing their craft and soon attracted throngs of adoring submissives. 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 49:
2. (qualifier:particularly used in formal documents) Any.
   • the above address or at such other address as may be provided
3. (qualifier:degree) Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
   • Why, I was absolutely spellbound. She sings with such passion!
   • I spent such a lot last night (that) now I can't even afford a burger.
   • Unfortunately, it wasn't such a good holiday as we thought it would be.
   • You're all such kind people!
   • They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…]. 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
   • The party was such a bore.
   • Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
   • Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
4. (qualifier:degree) Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather. ▸ Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
   • Such beautiful eyes you have.
   • Such hypocrisy!
5. (dialectal, obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
   • To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 4:13:
   • In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived. 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

Forms

Synonyms

what

Translations (115)

ar هَكَذَا (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · hi ऐसा (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · grc τοιοῦτος (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ka ამგვარი (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fo slíkur (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · es así (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · la talis (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · cmn 此類的 /此类的 (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sco sic (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ur ایسا (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ar مِثْل (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sv sådan (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ka ამისთანა (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · uk таки́й (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · de ein (used in official documents: any) · hu annyira (used as an intensifier) · nl zo'n (used as an intensifier) · tr böyle (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · gl tal (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ro așa (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · mn та́ков (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · hu olyan (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · pl taki (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sv sådan (used as an intensifier) · lt toks (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fi sellainen (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · pl taki (used as an intensifier) · th เช่น (used as an intensifier) · sga ind inni seo (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ps داسې (used as an intensifier) · se ná (used as an intensifier) · az elə (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · es tan (used as an intensifier) · sl tak (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ka ასეთი (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fi niin (used as an intensifier) · is þvílíkur (used as an intensifier) · hu bármely (used in official documents: any) · ja そのような (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · izh sellain (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · izh semmoin (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fa چنین (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · tr bu kadar (used as an intensifier) · es qué (used as an intensifier) · is þvílíkur (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sco sich (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ru тако́в (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ca tal (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ga a leithéid de (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sl takšen (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sh takav (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · de so ein (used as an intensifier) · de so ein (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · hu ennyire (used as an intensifier) · sk taký (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fi noin (used as an intensifier) · da sådan (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sco sic (used as an intensifier) · uz shunday (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · gl tan (used as an intensifier) · eo tia (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ru тако́й (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · it tale (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sv en (used in official documents: any) · tr böylesine (used as an intensifier) · hy այդպիսի (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · cs takový (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ja このような (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · mns-nor тамле (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ka ამნაირი (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ja そんな (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · nl zulk (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · de derartig (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · et selline (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · de solch (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · izh mokoma (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · th เช่นนี้ (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sco sich (used as an intensifier) · fr tellement (used as an intensifier) · hu egy (used in official documents: any) · is sá (used in official documents: any) · ro astfel (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · lv tāds (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ga cibé (used in official documents: any) · bho अइसर (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · et niisugune (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ga pé (used in official documents: any) · de solch (used as an intensifier) · grc οἷος (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · pt tal (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · pt assim (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · be такі́ (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ru тако́й (used as an intensifier) · nl zo'n (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · vi như thế (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · sh такав (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ko 그런 (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ps داسې (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · cmn 這樣的 /这样的 (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ja こんな (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · hu ilyen (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · es tal (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · nl een (used in official documents: any) · ru э́такий (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ro așa (used as an intensifier) · bg такъ́в (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fi moinen (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · es semejante (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · ga a leithéid de (used as an intensifier) · fi näin (used as an intensifier) · az belə (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · cs takový (used as an intensifier) · fi aikamoinen (used as an intensifier) · ltg itaids (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) · fr tel (used to make a comparison with something implied by context)

such en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /sʌt͡ʃ/
• /sɪt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)
• /sɛt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)
• /sʊt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Meanings

1. Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
   • But granted that Plato does not accept the this-such distinction, why saddle him with the view that all things are thises, rather than all suches or perhaps even neither? 1991, Frank A. Lewis, Substance and Predication in Aristotle:

Forms

Deriveds

as such · thus and such · suchly · suchwise · suchlike · nonesuch · such like · such as · such-and-such · suchness · some such · no such thing · until such time as · no such luck · such that · such or such · and such · such and such · such a waste · there's no such thing as a free lunch · many such cases

such en · PRON

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /sʌt͡ʃ/
• /sɪt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)
• /sɛt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)
• /sʊt͡ʃ/ (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Meanings

1. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
   • Such was her legal understanding that she navigated the negotiation with ease.
   • 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
   • Such is life, such as it is.
   • When applied to women, 'handsome' is used mostly of such as are middle-aged or elderly.
   • These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery. 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315
   • Some are just no-good locals—drunks and such—who’d just as soon beg or steal as work. 2000, Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen, →ISBN, page 238:

Forms

Translations (21)

hu ilyen (previously described) · cs takový (previously described) · bg такъ́в (previously described) · an tall (previously described) · gl tal (previously described) · ru тако́й (previously described) · es tal (previously described) · hu olyan (previously described) · nl zulk (previously described) · mk та́квиот (previously described) · pl taki (previously described) · csb taczi (previously described) · fr tel (previously described) · sco sic (previously described) · sv sådana (previously described) · no sånn (previously described) · sv sådan (previously described) · sv sådant (previously described) · sco sich (previously described) · de solch (previously described) · grc τοιοῦτος (previously described)