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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

things en · NOUN

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  1. (plural, plural-only) One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff
    • Get your hands off my things!
    • Have you brought all your things with you?
    • Ole Golly just had indoor things and outdoor things.... She just had yards and yards of tweed which enveloped her like a lot of discarded blankets, which ballooned out when she walked, and which she referred to as her Things. —Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (1964)
  2. (form-of, plural) plural of thing
    form of thing
  3. (plural, plural-only) The general state of affairs in a given context, e.g. one's relationship
    • Things have been rough between lately.
    • She wants to break things off.

Deriveds

overthings

Synonyms

stuff

things en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of thing
    form of thing