thus
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thus/ðʌs/
▶adverb literary or formal
- 1 as a result or consequence of this; therefore.
- 2 in the manner now being indicated or exemplified; in this way.
- 3 to this point; so.
– origin OE, of unknown origin.
'thus' also found in these Oxford entries:
Achilles heel
- alias
- between
- blind
- budget
- Coventry
- cut
- diffuse
- dunce
- either
- ellagic acid
- emotive
- follow
- gazump
- halve
- hardly
- high-octane
- illegal
- indent
- intense
- lady
- lest
- marine
- oscillate
- pay
- penny
- royal assent
- scumble
- sic
- so
- stalking horse
- stock
- streaky
- terminator gene
- thurible
- thurifer
- thusly
- tipper
- trammel
- Übermensch
- unsocial
- until
- whence
