Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Plural of
this .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun The plural of
this . Seethis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- determiner Plural form of
this . - pronoun Plural form of
this .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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D Wow..these appe sure look so delicious wt beautiful pores indicating hw flavorful these are!
Wheat Appe Meera 2008
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I'm still learning to snap and send and recommend these shot-staggered panes when how suddenly strange it seems not to know how at all to reach you with even one of these wide fish bellies bumping up against the screen.
Blue Glass 2008
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I'm still learning to snap and send and recommend these shot-staggered panes when how suddenly strange it seems not to know how at all to reach you with even one of these wide fish bellies bumping up against the screen.
Blue Glass 2008
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Also, I go by other meadows where other shepherds feed one month with another; but these _these_ are all _mine_.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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Christianity required no change in these outward things, for it was not in _these_ that the depth and reality of the kingdom of
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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The proof of the accuracy of these views will still be found in the circumstance, that if, while the person is reading, this act of the reiteration of some one or more of the ideas be in any way forced upon him, _these_ ideas thus reiterated will afterwards be remembered, although all the others are lost.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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President, regarding these appointments; but the verdict of army and people was that _these first_ selections were made with as much judgment and impartiality as the untried state of the army permitted.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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In connection with these demonstrative adjective pronouns remember that _this_ and _these_ refer to what is near at hand, _that_ and _those_ to what is more distant; as, _this book_ (near me), _that book_ (over there), _these_ boys (near), _those_ boys (at a distance).
How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin
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These vile, bejeweled, befeathered women, these loathsome, swinish men -- _these_ are the people who have money to spend.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923
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And these, and she stooped to pick a couple of yellow blossoms, that were growing in the sand at her feet, these are immortelles.
Chapter XI 1917
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