Th
thorium.
Th
1 AmericanSymbol, Chemistry.
-th
2
American
-th
3
American
-th
4
American
Th.
5
American
abbreviation
T.H.
6
American
abbreviation
-th
1
British
suffix
-
(from verbs) indicating an action or its consequence
growth
-
(from adjectives) indicating a quality
width
-th
2
British
suffix
Th
3
British
symbol
th
4
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of -th2
Middle English -th ( e ), Old English -thu, -tho, -th (variant -t after a velar, f, or s ); cognate with Gothic -itha, Latin -tus, Greek -tos
Origin of -th3
Middle English -the, -te, Old English -tha, -the (variant -ta after f or s ); cognate with Old Norse -thi, -di, Latin -tus, Greek -tos; see -eth 2
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Th clinic administers psychological help, reconstructive surgery and prosthetics to victims for free.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Th western parts of the country saw widespread flooding and damage to properties brought on by the hurricane.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
More delights await in the 30-film “Art House Horror” slate of genre classics spanning nearly a century, from the 1922 Swedish silent witchcraft pic “Häxan” and Carl Th.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Th critically acclaimed and popular series “The Bear” debuted its first season last June, but it was too late for the 2022 Emmy Awards.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Th e sound of the chenda mushroomed over the temple, accentuating the silence of the encompassing night.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Which, he notes, is not the case with, say, "big thing" or "big thighs," both of which give your tongue the space to bridge that awkward transition from "-ig" to "-th."
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2011
The present singular, 3rd person, of the indicative, ends both in -es or -s, and -eth or -th, the former being the more usual.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
The next evening we were relieved by the -th Brigade, and once again returned to rest billets.
From Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey
The ordinary termination of feminine singular nouns is -th, not -h.
From History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
Strength -th is a true word; fowl or fugel -l is no true word.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
His pictures were ranked with those of Th. de Keijser.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
Owing to the good treatment of their hands the Messrs. Th. have always had enough labourers, and have been able to develop their plantation wonderfully.
From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Felix Speiser
Fac-simile of a miniature from a ms. in the Bibl. de l'Arsenal, Th. lat., no 125.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
Th. translates 'on the roaring sea,' but adds 'quite conjectural.'
From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by James Mercer Garnett
The tablets are marked V. A. Th., but this mark includes other tablets widely separated in date and found at different sites.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Chronic loneliness is a serious, growing public health concern, says Dr. Jeremy Nobel, a professor at the Harvard T.H.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
For example, a review in August 2025 led by Dr Andrew Baccarelli, dean of the Harvard T.H.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
“We got rid of bad fat in the diet, but we didn’t replace it with healthy fat,” said Eric Rimm, a nutrition scientist at the Harvard T.H.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
The project also benefited from international collaboration with the Harvard T.H.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
Green. directed by self-conscious and purposive intelligence to an end conceived as good,—that the polemic of T.H.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Klymochko noticed in th e 8-K filing External link by Taylor Morrison on Monday that the two companies signed a confidentiality agreement on May 27.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Gigi Hadid, 28, and her sister Bella Hadid, 27, two of the most famous fashion models in the world, were born in th U.S. and grew up in Southern California.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Some of the band’s greatest hits include “Uma Thurman,” “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” “Dance, Dance” and “Thnks fr th Mmrs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
But the U.S. remains a major hub for the brisk trade, where as many as 73 million fins are sliced off of sharks around th world each year.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
“You got to wait a little bit,” Zannikos said to a pride of elegant women who had spent the morning at the Whitney Museum of American Art, across Madison Avenue at 75 th Street.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
