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Definitions: THEE |
THEEAdjective1. To thrive; to prosper. Pronoun1. The objective case of thou. See Thou. |
Date "THEE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Phrase: "give every man thine ear but few thy voice"; "I pray thee cease thy counsel"; "my guide, philosopher, and friend"; "'twas good advice and meant, my son be good"; verbum sat sapienti; vive memor leti; "we, ask advice but we mean approbation". |
Conversation | Phrase: "with thee conversing I forget all time". |
Request | Adverb: prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please. |
Revenge | Phrase: manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; " in high vengeance there is noble scorn "; inhumanum verbum est ultio; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet; " now infidel I have thee on the hip ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dark and sinister man, have at thee! (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) I know I shouldn't eat thee, but (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) For my planet's sake I spit my last breath at thee! (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) Day by day, day by day O Dear Lord, three things I pray To see more clearly Love thee more dearly Follow thee more nearly Day by day. (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak) | |
Lyrics | So desperately I sing to thee (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler) We place our trust in thee, (One With Darkness; performing artist: Cher) Respectfully I see to thee (Upside Down; performing artist: Diana Ross) Hide thee deadly black tarantula ("Banana Boat (Day-O)"; performing artist: Harry Belafonte) And I Will Then Say To Thee (Will You Be There; performing artist: Michael Jackson) | |
Tongue Twisters | Sheath thy sword, the surly sheriff said, "or surely shall a churlish serf soon shatter thee. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Of Thee I Sing (1972) Dos' mou to fos mou Thee mou (1963) My Country 'Tis of Thee (1950) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Get Thee Behind Me (1918) | |
Song Titles | Just a Closer Walk With Thee (performing artist: Jimmie Rodgers) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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![]() | "T'were Vain To Tell Thee All I Feel." / Published by Currier & Ives.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | With thee to support me, I defy the whole world.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | For the privilege of fighting for freedom, we thank Thee, O Lord.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Oh, hush thee, little dear-my-soul, and close thine eyes in dreaming.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Fair Deal Administration: I who have done my best to prove a worthy successor to the spending achievements of my late friend Roosevelt, do will thee debt without end.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Recovery, recovery of thee I sing!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | "Get thee behind me, (Mrs.) Satan!" / Th. Nast.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures -"and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate" -Henry 4th, part 1st / / Peter,burgh, inv. et fecit.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | U.S.S. Nashville, "I christen thee Nashville".Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | -- America, America, God shed his Grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood --.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | All nature is but art unknown to thee. |
Benjamin Franklin | Drive thy business or it will drive thee. |
| Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? | |
Captain William Driver | I name thee Old Glory. |
John Donne | Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. |
John Milton | With thee conversing I forget all time. |
Sir T. Browne | Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. |
The Bible | Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. |
William Shakespeare | We may pity, though not pardon thee. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Also (say they) in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that reddest out and broughtest in Israel, and the Lord said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1948) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Yet, if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Summer, I salute thee. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. |
Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; The more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation. Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "THEE" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THEE" is used about 649 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Pronoun (personal) | 100% | 649 | 10,069 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "THEE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Thee | Last name | 170 | 41,863 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "THEE". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ozanne | N/A | French | Save I pray thee |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "THEE": Belay thee ♦ Claw me claw thee ♦ i pray thee ♦ of thee ♦ to thee. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "THEE": thee-ay-tah, thee-day. | |
Containing "THEE": fare-thee-well. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "THEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | jou (thou, to, to thee, to you, ye, you, your). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ty (to you), ti (of you, thou, ye, you), teje (of you, thou, you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضمير المخاطب نصبا وجرا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тебе (you), те (they, you), ти (thou, ye, you, yourself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tobì (to you), ti (the, to you), tebe, tì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | naar u (you), naar jou, naar je (you), jou (thou, you), je (one, they, thou, ye, you, your), aan jou (you), aan je (you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تورا, ترا, بتو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Herra varjelkoon sinua (the Lord keep thee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toi (thou), te (thou, thyself, to thee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | dookje (thee and thou). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dich (thou, you, yourself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σε (at, in, into, on, to, upon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לך (you), אותך (you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | téged (you), neked (to you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | te (ye, you, yourself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | oo (thou, you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eethay ti (information technology, you), te (thyself, you), contigo (with you), a ti. (various references) pe tine (you), îţi (you), ţie (you). (various references) тебе (to you, you). (various references) thugad, thugaibh, thuige, thun (to thee), chugad (s., towards thee). (various references) ti (tee, thou, ye, you), tebe (thyself, you), te. (various references) te (tea, thyself, you, yourself). (various references) dig (dug, thyself, ye, you, yourself). (various references) ท่าน (คำโบรา"). (various references) seni (you), sen (thou, ye, you), sana (thou, to thee, to you, ye, you). (various references) тебе (to you, you). (various references) người (ball, soapy, trunk), anh (bund, bunder). (various references) ti (thou, you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tibi. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | thwãm, thwat. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 4, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Legei auth o ihsouV egw eimi o lalwn soi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dicit ei Iesus ego sum qui loquor tecum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Se hælend cwæð to hyre. Ic hyt em.þe wið þe sprece. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Jhesus seith to hir, Y am he, that spekith with thee. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Iesus sayde vnto hir: I that speake vnto the am he. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Jesus saith to her, I that speak to thee am he. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 4, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Si Jesus miingon kaniya, "Ako nga nakigsulti kanimo mao siya." |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 說 、 這 ' 說 話 的 就 是 他 。 |
| Croatian | Kaže joj Isus: "Ja sam, ja koji s tobom govorim!" |
| Danish | Jesus siger til hende: "Det er mig, jeg, som taler med dig." |
| Dutch | Jezus zeide tot haar: Ik ben het, Die met u spreek. |
| Finnish | Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Minä olen se, minä, joka puhun sinun kanssasi". |
| French | Jésus lui dit: Je le suis, moi qui te parle. |
| German | Jesus spricht zu ihr: Ich bin's, der mit dir redet. |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi reponn li: Mwen menm k'ap pale avè ou la a, mwen se Kris la. |
| Hungarian | Monda néki Jézus: Én vagyok az, a ki veled beszélek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Akulah Dia," kata Yesus, "Aku yang sekarang sedang berbicara dengan engkau." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata Yesus kepadanya, "Akulah Dia yang bertutur dengan engkau." |
| Maori | Ka mea a Ihu ki a ia, Ko ahau ano ia e korero nei ki a koe. |
| Norwegian | Jesus sier til henne: Det er mig, jeg som taler med dig! |
| Portuguese | Disse-lhe Jesus: Eu o sou, eu que falo contigo. |
| Rumanian | Isus i -a zis: ,,Eu, cel care vorbesc cu tine, sknt Acela.`` |
| Shuar | Jesus Tímiayi "Wiitjai. Amin chichaajmena Nú Kristuitjai." |
| Spanish | Jesús le dijo: --Yo soy, el que habla contigo. |
| Swahili | Yesu akamwambia, "Mimi ninayesema nawe, ndiye." |
| Swedish | Jesus svarade henne: "Jag, som talar med dig, är den du nu nämnde." |
| Uma | Na'uli' Yesus: "Aku' -mile toi-e, to mpololitai-ko wae-e lau." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "THEE": theelin, theelins, theelol, theelols. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "THEE": prithee, prythee. (additional references) | |
Words containing "THEE": potheen, potheens. (additional references) | |
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"THEE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fthe, hty, thabe, thade, thae, thaer, t'have, thaye, thaze, theak, theal, thebe, thed, theed, theef, theel, theen, theer, thees, theet, thef, thei, theid, theik, theil, Theix, thele, theo, theol, thep, ther, thes, thete, theve, thex, theze, thge, thia, thieg, thiel, thieo, thige, thize, thoe, thse, thue, thwe, tohue, trhe, tsee, tthe, tyee, tze, tzee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-t" | |
-1 letter: eth, het, tee, the. | |
-2 letters: eh, et, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-t" | |
+1 letter: ether, lethe, sheet, teeth, thebe, theme, there, these, three. | |
+2 letters: aether, behest, bethel, either, etched, etcher, etches, ethane, ethene, ethers, ethyne, heated, heater, hefted, hefter, helmet, hented, hereat, hereto, hetero, lethes, nether, reheat, seethe, sheets, teched, techie, teethe, tempeh, tether, thebes, thecae, theine, themed, themes, thence, theres, therme, theses, thieve, threep, threes, towhee, wether. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 45 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01000101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H E E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0045 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54423939 |
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