"thereby" meaning in English

See thereby in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/ [General-American], /ðɛəˈbaɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-thereby.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪ Etymology: From Middle English therby, from Old English ðǣrbig, equivalent to there + by. Compare the parallel formation of German dabei. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|therby}} Middle English therby, {{inh|en|ang|ðǣrbig}} Old English ðǣrbig, {{compound|en|there|by}} there + by, {{noncog|de|dabei}} German dabei Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} thereby (not comparable)
  1. (formal) By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that. Tags: formal, not-comparable Synonyms: therefore, eo ipso Derived forms: thereby hangs a tale Translations (by that): sodoende (Afrikaans), така (taka) (Bulgarian), по такъв начин (po takǎv način) (Bulgarian), 從而 /从而 (cóng'ér) (Chinese Mandarin), 因此 (yīncǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 以此 (yǐcǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), daarbij (Dutch), siten (Finnish), ainsi (French), de ce fait (French), par là (French), dadurch (German), damit (German), deswegen (German), darum (German), deshalb (German), ως εκ τούτου (os ek toútou) (alt: λόγιο) (Greek), ezáltal (Hungarian), általa (Hungarian), ennélfogva (Hungarian), in tal modo (Italian), perciò (Italian), pertanto (Italian), それによって (sore ni yotte) (Japanese), そのために (sono tame ni) (Japanese), nō reira (Maori), derved (Norwegian Bokmål), atal (Occitan), amb aquò (Occitan), per aquò (Occitan), tym samym (Polish), com isso (Portuguese), таки́м о́бразом (takím óbrazom) (Russian), тем са́мым (alt: и) (Russian), así (Spanish), de ese modo (Spanish), därmed (Swedish), därigenom (Swedish), таки́м чи́ном (takým čýnom) (Ukrainian), اس کے علاوہ (is ke ilāva) (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-thereby-en-adv-JK2FjSCa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Urdu translations Related terms (about): hereabout, thereabout, whereabout Related terms (abouts): hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts Related terms (after): hereafter, thereafter, whereafter Related terms (again): thereagain Related terms (against): hereagainst, thereagainst, whereagainst Related terms (among): hereamong, thereamong, whereamong Related terms (amongst): thereamongst, whereamongst Related terms (around): therearound, wherearound Related terms (as): thereas, whereas Related terms (at): hereat, thereat, whereat Related terms (before): herebefore, therebefore Related terms (beside): therebeside Related terms (between): therebetween, wherebetween Related terms (by): hereby, whereby Related terms (for): herefor, therefor, wherefor Related terms (fore): herefore, therefore, wherefore Related terms (from): herefrom, therefrom, wherefrom Related terms (hence): herehence, therehence Related terms (in): herein, therein, wherein Related terms (in after): hereinafter, thereinafter, whereinafter Related terms (in before): hereinbefore, thereinbefore, whereinbefore Related terms (into): hereinto, thereinto, whereinto Related terms (of): hereof, thereof, whereof Related terms (on): hereon, thereon, whereon Related terms (out): hereout, thereout, whereout Related terms (to): hereto, thereto, whereto Related terms (tofore): heretofore, theretofore, wheretofore Related terms (under): hereunder, thereunder, whereunder Related terms (unto): hereunto, thereunto, whereunto Related terms (upon): hereupon, thereupon, whereupon Related terms (with): herewith, therewith, wherewith Related terms (withal): herewithal, therewithal, wherewithal
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "therby"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English therby",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "ðǣrbig"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English ðǣrbig",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "there",
        "3": "by"
      },
      "expansion": "there + by",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "dabei"
      },
      "expansion": "German dabei",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English therby, from Old English ðǣrbig, equivalent to there + by. Compare the parallel formation of German dabei.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "thereby (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Occitan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Urdu translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "thereby hangs a tale"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I enrolled in Old English classes and thereby learned a lot about Germanic languages.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1729, [Jonathan Swift], A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin: […] S[arah] Harding, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:",
          "text": "Thirdly, Whereas the Maintenance of an hundred thouſand Children, from two Years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at leſs than Ten Shillings a piece per Annum, the Nation's ſtock will be thereby encreaſed fifty thouſand pounds per Annum, beſides the profit of a new Diſh, introduced to the Tables of all Gentlemen of Fortune in the Kingdom, who have any refinement in Taſte, and the Money will circulate among our ſelves, the Goods being entirely of our own Growth and Manufacture.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1787, United States Constitution, Article VI, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that."
      ],
      "id": "en-thereby-en-adv-JK2FjSCa",
      "links": [
        [
          "means",
          "means"
        ],
        [
          "consequence",
          "consequence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(formal) By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "sense": "about",
          "word": "hereabout"
        },
        {
          "sense": "about",
          "word": "thereabout"
        },
        {
          "sense": "about",
          "word": "whereabout"
        },
        {
          "sense": "abouts",
          "word": "hereabouts"
        },
        {
          "sense": "abouts",
          "word": "thereabouts"
        },
        {
          "sense": "abouts",
          "word": "whereabouts"
        },
        {
          "sense": "after",
          "word": "hereafter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "after",
          "word": "thereafter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "after",
          "word": "whereafter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "again",
          "word": "thereagain"
        },
        {
          "sense": "against",
          "word": "hereagainst"
        },
        {
          "sense": "against",
          "word": "thereagainst"
        },
        {
          "sense": "against",
          "word": "whereagainst"
        },
        {
          "sense": "among",
          "word": "hereamong"
        },
        {
          "sense": "among",
          "word": "thereamong"
        },
        {
          "sense": "among",
          "word": "whereamong"
        },
        {
          "sense": "amongst",
          "word": "thereamongst"
        },
        {
          "sense": "amongst",
          "word": "whereamongst"
        },
        {
          "sense": "around",
          "word": "therearound"
        },
        {
          "sense": "around",
          "word": "wherearound"
        },
        {
          "sense": "as",
          "word": "thereas"
        },
        {
          "sense": "as",
          "word": "whereas"
        },
        {
          "sense": "at",
          "word": "hereat"
        },
        {
          "sense": "at",
          "word": "thereat"
        },
        {
          "sense": "at",
          "word": "whereat"
        },
        {
          "sense": "before",
          "word": "herebefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "before",
          "word": "therebefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "beside",
          "word": "therebeside"
        },
        {
          "sense": "between",
          "word": "therebetween"
        },
        {
          "sense": "between",
          "word": "wherebetween"
        },
        {
          "sense": "by",
          "word": "hereby"
        },
        {
          "sense": "by",
          "word": "whereby"
        },
        {
          "sense": "for",
          "word": "herefor"
        },
        {
          "sense": "for",
          "word": "therefor"
        },
        {
          "sense": "for",
          "word": "wherefor"
        },
        {
          "sense": "fore",
          "word": "herefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "fore",
          "word": "therefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "fore",
          "word": "wherefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "from",
          "word": "herefrom"
        },
        {
          "sense": "from",
          "word": "therefrom"
        },
        {
          "sense": "from",
          "word": "wherefrom"
        },
        {
          "sense": "hence",
          "word": "herehence"
        },
        {
          "sense": "hence",
          "word": "therehence"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in",
          "word": "herein"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in",
          "word": "therein"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in",
          "word": "wherein"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in after",
          "word": "hereinafter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in after",
          "word": "thereinafter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in after",
          "word": "whereinafter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in before",
          "word": "hereinbefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in before",
          "word": "thereinbefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "in before",
          "word": "whereinbefore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "into",
          "word": "hereinto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "into",
          "word": "thereinto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "into",
          "word": "whereinto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "of",
          "word": "hereof"
        },
        {
          "sense": "of",
          "word": "thereof"
        },
        {
          "sense": "of",
          "word": "whereof"
        },
        {
          "sense": "on",
          "word": "hereon"
        },
        {
          "sense": "on",
          "word": "thereon"
        },
        {
          "sense": "on",
          "word": "whereon"
        },
        {
          "sense": "out",
          "word": "hereout"
        },
        {
          "sense": "out",
          "word": "thereout"
        },
        {
          "sense": "out",
          "word": "whereout"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to",
          "word": "hereto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to",
          "word": "thereto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to",
          "word": "whereto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "tofore",
          "word": "heretofore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "tofore",
          "word": "theretofore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "tofore",
          "word": "wheretofore"
        },
        {
          "sense": "under",
          "word": "hereunder"
        },
        {
          "sense": "under",
          "word": "thereunder"
        },
        {
          "sense": "under",
          "word": "whereunder"
        },
        {
          "sense": "unto",
          "word": "hereunto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "unto",
          "word": "thereunto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "unto",
          "word": "whereunto"
        },
        {
          "sense": "upon",
          "word": "hereupon"
        },
        {
          "sense": "upon",
          "word": "thereupon"
        },
        {
          "sense": "upon",
          "word": "whereupon"
        },
        {
          "sense": "with",
          "word": "herewith"
        },
        {
          "sense": "with",
          "word": "therewith"
        },
        {
          "sense": "with",
          "word": "wherewith"
        },
        {
          "sense": "withal",
          "word": "herewithal"
        },
        {
          "sense": "withal",
          "word": "therewithal"
        },
        {
          "sense": "withal",
          "word": "wherewithal"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "therefore"
        },
        {
          "word": "eo ipso"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "sodoende"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "taka",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "така"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "po takǎv način",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "по такъв начин"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "cóng'ér",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "從而 /从而"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yīncǐ",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "因此"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǐcǐ",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "以此"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "daarbij"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "siten"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "ainsi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "de ce fait"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "par là"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "dadurch"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "damit"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "deswegen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "darum"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "deshalb"
        },
        {
          "alt": "λόγιο",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "os ek toútou",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "ως εκ τούτου"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "ezáltal"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "általa"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "ennélfogva"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "in tal modo"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "perciò"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "pertanto"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sore ni yotte",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "それによって"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sono tame ni",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "そのために"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "nō reira"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "derved"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "atal"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "amb aquò"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "per aquò"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "tym samym"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "com isso"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "takím óbrazom",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "таки́м о́бразом"
        },
        {
          "alt": "и",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "тем са́мым"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "así"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "de ese modo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "därmed"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "därigenom"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "takým čýnom",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "таки́м чи́ном"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "is ke ilāva",
          "sense": "by that",
          "word": "اس کے علاوہ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ðɛɹˈbaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ðɛəˈbaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-thereby.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fe/En-us-thereby.ogg/En-us-thereby.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/En-us-thereby.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thereby"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "thereby hangs a tale"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "therby"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English therby",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "ðǣrbig"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English ðǣrbig",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "there",
        "3": "by"
      },
      "expansion": "there + by",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "dabei"
      },
      "expansion": "German dabei",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English therby, from Old English ðǣrbig, equivalent to there + by. Compare the parallel formation of German dabei.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "thereby (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "about",
      "word": "hereabout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "about",
      "word": "thereabout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "about",
      "word": "whereabout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abouts",
      "word": "hereabouts"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abouts",
      "word": "thereabouts"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abouts",
      "word": "whereabouts"
    },
    {
      "sense": "after",
      "word": "hereafter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "after",
      "word": "thereafter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "after",
      "word": "whereafter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "again",
      "word": "thereagain"
    },
    {
      "sense": "against",
      "word": "hereagainst"
    },
    {
      "sense": "against",
      "word": "thereagainst"
    },
    {
      "sense": "against",
      "word": "whereagainst"
    },
    {
      "sense": "among",
      "word": "hereamong"
    },
    {
      "sense": "among",
      "word": "thereamong"
    },
    {
      "sense": "among",
      "word": "whereamong"
    },
    {
      "sense": "amongst",
      "word": "thereamongst"
    },
    {
      "sense": "amongst",
      "word": "whereamongst"
    },
    {
      "sense": "around",
      "word": "therearound"
    },
    {
      "sense": "around",
      "word": "wherearound"
    },
    {
      "sense": "as",
      "word": "thereas"
    },
    {
      "sense": "as",
      "word": "whereas"
    },
    {
      "sense": "at",
      "word": "hereat"
    },
    {
      "sense": "at",
      "word": "thereat"
    },
    {
      "sense": "at",
      "word": "whereat"
    },
    {
      "sense": "before",
      "word": "herebefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "before",
      "word": "therebefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "beside",
      "word": "therebeside"
    },
    {
      "sense": "between",
      "word": "therebetween"
    },
    {
      "sense": "between",
      "word": "wherebetween"
    },
    {
      "sense": "by",
      "word": "hereby"
    },
    {
      "sense": "by",
      "word": "whereby"
    },
    {
      "sense": "for",
      "word": "herefor"
    },
    {
      "sense": "for",
      "word": "therefor"
    },
    {
      "sense": "for",
      "word": "wherefor"
    },
    {
      "sense": "fore",
      "word": "herefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "fore",
      "word": "therefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "fore",
      "word": "wherefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "from",
      "word": "herefrom"
    },
    {
      "sense": "from",
      "word": "therefrom"
    },
    {
      "sense": "from",
      "word": "wherefrom"
    },
    {
      "sense": "hence",
      "word": "herehence"
    },
    {
      "sense": "hence",
      "word": "therehence"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in",
      "word": "herein"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in",
      "word": "therein"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in",
      "word": "wherein"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in after",
      "word": "hereinafter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in after",
      "word": "thereinafter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in after",
      "word": "whereinafter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in before",
      "word": "hereinbefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in before",
      "word": "thereinbefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "in before",
      "word": "whereinbefore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "into",
      "word": "hereinto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "into",
      "word": "thereinto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "into",
      "word": "whereinto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of",
      "word": "hereof"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of",
      "word": "thereof"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of",
      "word": "whereof"
    },
    {
      "sense": "on",
      "word": "hereon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "on",
      "word": "thereon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "on",
      "word": "whereon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "out",
      "word": "hereout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "out",
      "word": "thereout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "out",
      "word": "whereout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to",
      "word": "hereto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to",
      "word": "thereto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to",
      "word": "whereto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "tofore",
      "word": "heretofore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "tofore",
      "word": "theretofore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "tofore",
      "word": "wheretofore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "under",
      "word": "hereunder"
    },
    {
      "sense": "under",
      "word": "thereunder"
    },
    {
      "sense": "under",
      "word": "whereunder"
    },
    {
      "sense": "unto",
      "word": "hereunto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "unto",
      "word": "thereunto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "unto",
      "word": "whereunto"
    },
    {
      "sense": "upon",
      "word": "hereupon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "upon",
      "word": "thereupon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "upon",
      "word": "whereupon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "with",
      "word": "herewith"
    },
    {
      "sense": "with",
      "word": "therewith"
    },
    {
      "sense": "with",
      "word": "wherewith"
    },
    {
      "sense": "withal",
      "word": "herewithal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "withal",
      "word": "therewithal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "withal",
      "word": "wherewithal"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English formal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English pronominal adverbs",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪ",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪ/2 syllables",
        "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Occitan translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I enrolled in Old English classes and thereby learned a lot about Germanic languages.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1729, [Jonathan Swift], A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin: […] S[arah] Harding, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:",
          "text": "Thirdly, Whereas the Maintenance of an hundred thouſand Children, from two Years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at leſs than Ten Shillings a piece per Annum, the Nation's ſtock will be thereby encreaſed fifty thouſand pounds per Annum, beſides the profit of a new Diſh, introduced to the Tables of all Gentlemen of Fortune in the Kingdom, who have any refinement in Taſte, and the Money will circulate among our ſelves, the Goods being entirely of our own Growth and Manufacture.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1787, United States Constitution, Article VI, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "means",
          "means"
        ],
        [
          "consequence",
          "consequence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(formal) By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ðɛɹˈbaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ðɛəˈbaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-thereby.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fe/En-us-thereby.ogg/En-us-thereby.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/En-us-thereby.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "therefore"
    },
    {
      "word": "eo ipso"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "sodoende"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "taka",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "така"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "po takǎv način",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "по такъв начин"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cóng'ér",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "從而 /从而"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yīncǐ",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "因此"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǐcǐ",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "以此"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "daarbij"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "siten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "ainsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "de ce fait"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "par là"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "dadurch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "damit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "deswegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "darum"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "deshalb"
    },
    {
      "alt": "λόγιο",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "os ek toútou",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "ως εκ τούτου"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "ezáltal"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "általa"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "ennélfogva"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "in tal modo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "perciò"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "pertanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sore ni yotte",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "それによって"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sono tame ni",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "そのために"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "nō reira"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "derved"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "atal"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "amb aquò"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "per aquò"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "tym samym"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "com isso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "takím óbrazom",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "таки́м о́бразом"
    },
    {
      "alt": "и",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "тем са́мым"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "así"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "de ese modo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "därmed"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "därigenom"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "takým čýnom",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "таки́м чи́ном"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "is ke ilāva",
      "sense": "by that",
      "word": "اس کے علاوہ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thereby"
}

Download raw JSONL data for thereby meaning in English (11.1kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": (i) tem sámym vs. и",
  "path": [
    "thereby"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "adverb",
  "title": "thereby",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.