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   them

   /T͟Hem/

   pronoun

   • 1. used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified: "I bathed the kids and read them stories"
   • ▪ used after the verb “to be” and after “than” or “as”: "you think that's them?"
   • ▪ referring to a person of unspecified sex: "how well do you have to know someone before you call them a friend?"
   • ▪ referring to a person whose gender identity does not correspond to the traditional binary opposition of male and female: "Rowan stopped being a mod on this blog, but we still contact them"
   • 2. themselves: archaic "they bethought them of a new expedient"

   determiner

   • 1. those: informal, dialect "look at them eyes"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse theim ‘to those, to them’, dative plural of sá; related to their and they.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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