Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thame

/ˈteɪm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: thame
IPA: /ˈteɪm/

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

pron

Obsolete

name

A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which flows into the River Thames at Dorchester-on-Thames.

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, by the above river (OS grid ref SP7006).

Example Sentences

"And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to the horne […]"
"[…] that we communicat with thame in nathing that may appeir to manteane or defend thame […]"
"Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English thame.

Usage

Obsolete

Derived Forms

thameselves

Homonyms

tame

Questions

How do you pronounce thame?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈteɪm/.
What does thame mean?: Them.
Where does thame come from?: Inherited from Middle English thame.

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