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Definitions

determiner

  1. 1.

    (determiner/pronoun) Used to identify specific people or things at a distance or previously mentioned (plural of "that").

  2. 2.

    Used to refer to people or things already mentioned or known.

  3. 3.

    Referring to a specific group of people.

  4. 4.

    Used to introduce examples.

Related words

Antonyms: these
See also: that, these, this

Etymology

From Old English "thas," which was the plural of the demonstrative. In Middle English, the vowel changed to distinguish "those" (distant plural) from "these" (near plural), creating the modern demonstrative system.