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Noun [English]

IPA: /θɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-thing.ogg Forms: Things [plural]
enPR: thĭng Rhymes: -ɪŋ Etymology: See thing. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Thing (plural Things)
  1. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. Tags: historical Translations (public assembly): ting (Danish), ding (Dutch), ting (Estonian), ting (Faroese), ting (Finnish), thing (Finnish), Thing (French), Ding [neuter] (German), Thing [neuter] (German), þing (Icelandic), ting (Italian), thing (Italian), тинг (ting) [masculine] (Macedonian), ting (Norwegian), þing (Old English), ding (Old High German), þing (Old Norse), thing [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), тинг (ting) (Russian), thing (Spanish), ting (Swedish)
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  2. (informal) Nickname or appellative for numerous "things", including fictional characters. Tags: informal Derived forms: Thingstead, the Althing of Iceland, the People's Thing of Denmark, the Great Thing of Norway, the Law Thing of the Faroes
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  3. (informal, slang, US) Nickname for the Volkswagen 181. Tags: US, informal, slang
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Noun [German]

IPA: /tɪŋ/ Audio: De-Thing.ogg
Etymology: 18th century, learned borrowing from Old High German thing and Old Norse þing, both from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Doublet of inherited Ding. Etymology templates: {{learned borrowing|de|goh|thing|nocap=1}} learned borrowing from Old High German thing, {{bor|de|non|þing}} Old Norse þing, {{der|de|gem-pro|*þingą}} Proto-Germanic *þingą, {{doublet|de|Ding|notext=1}} Ding Head templates: {{de-noun|n}} Thing n (strong, genitive Things, plural Thinge) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|n}} Forms: Things [genitive], Thinge [plural], strong [table-tags], Thing [nominative, singular], Thinge [definite, nominative, plural], Things [genitive, singular], Thinge [definite, genitive, plural], Thing [dative, singular], Thingen [dative, definite, plural], Thing [accusative, singular], Thinge [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. Thing (historic Germanic council) Tags: neuter, strong Synonyms: Ding Related terms: Thie
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Inflected forms

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      "word": "Thingstead"
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      "word": "the Althing of Iceland"
    },
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      "word": "the People's Thing of Denmark"
    },
    {
      "word": "the Great Thing of Norway"
    },
    {
      "word": "the Law Thing of the Faroes"
    }
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          "ref": "1988, Patrick J. Geary, Chapter II, \"The Barbarian World in the Sixth Century\", 'Germanic Culture', Before France and Germany: the creation and transformation of the Merovingian world, page 55",
          "text": "The supreme political unit of the tribe was the assembly of its free male warriors. This assembly, called the \"Thing\", served as the court of highest instance for dealing with individuals who had broken fundamental elements of the tribal pact, an occasion to meet and to reinforce ties among members, and, often, an assembly which preceded a military campaign."
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          "ref": "1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 168:",
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          "ref": "2004, Sjúrður Skaale, The Right to National Self-Determination: the Faroe Islands and Greenland, page 46:",
          "text": "1928 The Executive Committee of the Law Thing is created to assume executive powers from the Governor.",
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        "(informal) Nickname or appellative for numerous \"things\", including fictional characters."
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        "Nickname for the Volkswagen 181."
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "public assembly",
      "word": "ting"
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