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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Though

/(t͟hō)/ · IPA /ðoʊ/
01 conj. Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
  1. 1.
    Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
    “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” — Job xiii. 15.
    “Not that I so affirm, though so it seem.” — Milton.
    “In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded.” — Gen. xl. 10.
Phrases & compounds
As though — as if.
02 adv. However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.
  1. 1.
    However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.
    “I would not be as sick though for his place.” — Shak.
    “A good cause would do well, though.” — Dryden.