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the1  /stressed ði; unstressed before a consonant ðə; unstressed before a vowel ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[stressed thee; unstressed before a consonant thuh; unstressed before a vowel thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

 

–definite article 1. (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house.

2. (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.

3. (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith.

4. (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.

5. (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped.

6. (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends.

7. (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous.

8. (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way.

9. (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties.

10. (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night?

11. enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave.

12. (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound.

 

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