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Definitions

determiner

  1. 1.

    (determiner/pronoun) Used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated.

  2. 2.

    (pronoun) Used to introduce someone or something.

  3. 3.

    (determiner) Referring to a period of time just past or about to begin.

  4. 4.

    (adverb) To the degree indicated.

  5. 5.

    Used in storytelling to create immediacy.

Forms

plural: these

Related words

Antonyms: that
See also: that, these, those

Etymology

From Old English "this," the masculine and neuter nominative/accusative singular of the demonstrative pronoun, from Proto-Germanic "*that-." The demonstrative system distinguishing "this" (near) from "that" (far) has been fundamental to English throughout its history.