Thing Definition
- Right away; before anything else:
Do your assignments first thing in the morning.
- To have hallucinations.
- to have hallucinations
- that which is wise, essential, etc.
- that which is the height of fashion or style
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Origin of Thing
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From Middle English, from Old English þing (thing), from Proto-Germanic *þingą; compare West Frisian ding, Low German Ding, Dutch ding, German Ding, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ting. The word originally meant "assembly", then came to mean a specific issue discussed at such an assembly, and ultimately came to mean most broadly "an object". Compare the Latin rēs, also meaning legal matter. Modern use to refer to a Germanic assembly is likely influenced by cognates (from the same Proto-Germanic root) like Old Norse þing (thing), Swedish ting, and Old High German ding with this meaning.
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Middle English from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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