such

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsuch,swuch,swich,swilch,swulch,fromOld Englishswelċ,fromProto-West Germanic*swalīk,fromProto-Germanic*swalīkaz(“so formed, so like”),equivalent toso+‎like.Cognate withScotsswilk,sic,sik(“such”),Saterland Frisiansuk(“such”),West Frisiansuk,sok(“such”),Dutchzulk(“such”),Low Germansölk,sulk,sülk,suk(“such”),Germansolch(“such”),Danishslig(“like that, such”),Swedishslik(“such”),Icelandicslíkur(“such”).More atso,like.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/sʌt͡ʃ/
  • (dialectal,archaic)IPA(key):/sɪt͡ʃ/,/sɛt͡ʃ/(seesich,sech)[1]
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Rhymes:-ʌtʃ

Determiner

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such

  1. (demonstrative)Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
    I’ve never seensuchclouds in the sky before. Such is life
    • 1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill,chapter II, inThe Celebrity: An Episode,New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company;London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified atsuchan unusual proceeding.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter II, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,[…];and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her withsuchimmortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
    • 2013June 1, “A better waterworks”, inThe Economist‎[1],volume407,number8838,page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine.Suchdevices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
  2. (particularly used in formal documents)Any.
    the above address or atsuchother address as may be provided
  3. (degree)Used as anintensifierroughly equivalent toverymuch(of),quiteorrather.
    The party wassucha bore."Bottomless" issucha lie.
    • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies],chapter 1, inThe Amateur Poacher,London:Smith, Elder, & Co.,[…],→OCLC:
      They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed insucha ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…].
    • 1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill,chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode,New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company;London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and withsucha loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
    • 1959,Georgette Heyer,chapter 1, inThe Unknown Ajax:
      Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was notsucha whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
    1. (exclamative)Used withgradablenoun phrases to formexclamations.
      Synonym:what
      Suchhypocrisy!
      Suchbouncy children you have.
      Why, I was absolutely spellbound. She sings withsuchpassion!
  4. (obsolete)Acertain;representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

Usage notes

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See notes for exclamativewhat.

Translations

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Pronoun

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such

  1. A person, a thing, people,or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
    • 1804,Joseph Addison, Richard Steele,The Tatler,C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:
      These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction ofsuchas run astray after their lost goods: but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate ofsuchas have chances in the public lottery.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln,chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients,New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies andsuch—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
    • 2000,Terry Goodkind,Faith of the Fallen,→ISBN,page238:
      Some are just no-good locals—drunks andsuch—who’d just as soon beg or steal as work.

Translations

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Noun

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such(pluralsuches)

  1. (philosophy)Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
    • 1991,Frank A. Lewis,Substance and Predication in Aristotle‎[2]:
      But granted that Plato does not accept the this-such distinction, why saddle him with the view that all things are thises, rather than allsuchesor perhaps even neither?
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References

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  1. ^Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, inThe Speech of East Texas(American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2),New York:Columbia University Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 12,page27.

Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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suchn

  1. genitivepluralofsucho

German

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Verb

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such

  1. singularimperativeofsuchen

Middle English

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Determiner

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such

  1. Alternative form ofswich
    • 1470–1483(date produced),Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e.,Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, inLe Morte Darthur(British LibraryAdditional Manuscript 59678), [England:s.n.],folio 449, verso,lines15–18:
      Than ſpake ẜGawayneAnd ſeyde brothir · ẜAggravayneI pray you and charge you meve noſuch· maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //
      Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agrivain, I pray you and charge you move notsuchmatters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”
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