thing
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Is thing a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (law)
2. (law)
3. (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.Examples: "Hold on, let me just grab my things."in-plural
4. (somewhat dated, with the) The latest fad or fashion.Examples: "To go to bed late, to rise late, to breakfast late, to dine late, and to visit late, is to be “quite the thing,” or in good English, which you may understand better than the first phrase, to be in the fashion."; "After a slow start it became the thing to do; 'everyone went to see Pbi-Pbi, no one talked of anything but Pbi-Pbi[…]'"dated
5. (informal) A custom or practice.Examples: "Cheek kissing is a French thing; you get used to it after a while."informal
6. (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).Examples: "Bacon pie? Is that a thing?"; "Now I don't know how many of those male flight attendants are male lesbians -- you know... (Laughter) Well, it's a thing. I mean, there's a -- it's a -- there's a feminist professor down in Tampa who's discovered a male lesbian"; "Frequent statements of the kind “'Race' is not a thing”, “'races,' put simply, do not exist”, “'race' (as each essay subtly shows) simply does not exist” aim to discredit Todorov's claim that a relapse to an ontology of race is at place […]"informal
verb (English)
1. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.rare
noun (English)
1. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.Examples: "But when the earl held a Thing, then Thorkell spoke on behalf of the freemen, told the need of the men, and bade the earl spare his people."; "The supreme political unit of the tribe was the assembly of its free male warriors. This assembly, called the "Thing", served as the court of highest instance for dealing with individuals who had broken fundamental elements of the tribal pact, an occasion to meet and to reinforce ties among members, and, often, an assembly which preceded a military campaign."; "Before Thorstein left home, he and Asgerd decided to take Arinbjorn's gift, the silk cloak, out of Egil's chest, and Thorstein wore it to the Thing."historical
2. (informal) Nickname or appellative for numerous "things", including fictional characters.informal
3. (informal, slang, US) Nickname for the Volkswagen 181.USinformalslang
Definition source: Wiktionary