so
Part of speech: conj
adv
adj
intj
pron
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
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Etymology: From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-European *swē, *swō (reflexive pronomial stem). Cognate with Scots sae (“so”), Saterland Frisian so (“so”), West Frisian sa (“so”), Dutch zo (“so”), German Low German so (“so”), German so (“so”), Danish så (“so”), Norwegian Nynorsk so (“so”), Swedish så (“so, such that”), Faroese so (“so”), Icelandic svo (“so”), Old Latin suad (“so”), Albanian sa (“how much, so, as”), Ancient Greek ὡς (hōs, “as”), Urdu سو (sō, “hence”).
Inflected forms:
form: more so
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most so
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: As a result; for that reason; therefore; because of this; due to this.
pos: conj
examples: I was hungry, so I asked if there was any more food.
He ate too much cake and so he fell ill.
He wanted a book, so he went to the library.
“I need to go to the bathroom.” ― “So go!”
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
gloss: Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
pos: conj
examples: So how does this story end?
gloss: Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
pos: conj
examples: “We'd like to visit but I don't know if we can afford a hotel.” — “So who's staying in a hotel? Stay with us.”
gloss: Provided that; on condition that; as long as.
pos: conj
tags: archaic
examples: Speed. ‘Item: She doth talk in her sleep.’
Launce. It’s no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.
As we cal money not onely that which is true and good, but also the false; so it be currant.
[…] though all the windes of doctrin were let loose play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.
I went away very well satisfy’d, not caring where I was sent, so it was but out of his Sight; for he now became more my Aversion than ever.
gloss: To the (explicitly stated) extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was so hot outside that all the plants died.
He was so good, they hired him on the spot.
You behaviour so incensed me that I even thought of firing you.
It was so cold a day that I could hardly breathe outside.
So ridiculously did I do in the exam that mom grounded me for a month.
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
gloss: To the (implied) extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I need a piece of cloth so long. [= this long]
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
gloss: Very (positive or negative clause).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I feel so much better now.
I so nearly lost my temper.
It’s not so bad. [i.e. it's acceptable]
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
gloss: Very much.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!
Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.
I so wanted to be Jess Harley again.
Yeah! Not eating is so 90’s!
gloss: Very much.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: That is so not true!
gloss: In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; likewise, also.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: As above, so below.
Just as you have the right to your free speech, so I have the right to mine.  Many people say she's the world's greatest athlete, but I don't think so.  "I can count backwards from one hundred." "So can I."
He wants to eat now. So does she.
"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn." ¶ "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
The work thus done has probably been of the greatest value to the human race; but, just as in other cases it has sometimes happened that the effort to do a certain work has resulted in the end in an unbalanced exaggeration so here.
It was a goal that meant West Ham won on their first appearance at Wembley in 31 years, in doing so becoming the first team since Leicester in 1996 to bounce straight back to the Premier League through the play-offs.
it's okay to be different
'Cause baby, so am I
gloss: Indeed.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: ‘Look, it’s just stopped raining.’ ‘So it has!’
‘There are two more.’ ‘So there are.’
gloss: To such an extent or degree; as.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: so far as;  so long as;  so much as
gloss: Agreeing with actual facts or reality; true.
pos: adj
examples: That is so.
You are responsible for this, is that not so?
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
The details of her own life crowded out everything else; almost every time I saw Min, she had something new to tell me. It sometimes felt as if the laws of the physical world did not apply to her, that she had only to think of something — a job switch, a breakup — to make it so. If I didn’t see her for a while, she might forget to tell me that she had quit a factory or gotten a raise, because in her mind she had already moved on.
gloss: In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
pos: adj
examples: "You're definitely not right about that." "I am so!" (→I am right about that).
If this separation was painful to all parties, it was most so to Martha.
But if I had been more fit to be married, I might have made you more so too.
It must be understood that while the nelumbiums are hardy, they are so only as long as the tubers are out of the reach of frost.
gloss: Homosexual.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: Is he so?
gloss: Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
pos: intj
examples: So, let's go home.
So, what'll you have?
So, there was this squirrel stuck in the chimney...
So, everyone wants to know – did you win the contest or not?
So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
gloss: Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
pos: intj
examples: "You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?"
gloss: Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
pos: intj
examples: What are you doing? / So I'm just fixing this shelf.
What time does the train leave? / So it leaves at 10 o'clock.
gloss: Be as you are; stand still; used especially to cows; also used by sailors.
pos: intj
tags: archaic
gloss: That which was previously mentioned; that.
pos: pron
tags: demonstrative
examples: I'll become a loyal friend and remain so.
If that's what you really mean, then just say so.
You may need to refer to litigation as a procedure, and when you have done so, you can say a matter is "in litigation".
"When I went to Venice, I discovered that my dream had become—incredibly but quite simply—my address." So wrote Marcel Proust, capturing the essence of a city where water, light, art, and memory converge.
gloss: A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
pos: noun
gloss: A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
pos: noun
Synonyms: really
truly
that
very
this
yea
very much
one of the family
one of them
that way inclined
Derived words: and so forth
and so on
and so say all of us
as it so happens
as so
be it so
even so
ever so
every so often
for so long a time
'fraid so
go so far as
how came you so
how so
howso
howsofar
I don't think so
if I do say so myself
if I may be so bold
if I may make so bold
if I may say so
if I might be so bold
if I say so myself
if it be so
if so
if so be
if you say so
I'm afraid so
in so much
insomuch
isn't it so
is that so
I think so
I told you so
just so
less so
like so
make it so that
maybeso
none-so-pretty
not so fast
not so hot
not-so-hot
not so much
oh so
one should be so lucky
one should live so long
or so
quite so
rightly so
say it ain't so
say-so
so-and-so
so as
so as to
so be it
so-called
so crazy
so crazy it just might work
soever
so far
so far as
so far so good
so fashion
so help me
so help me Bob
so help me cat
so help me God
so help me tater
so help me tatur
so help my tater
so help you God
so is life
so it goes
so it seems
so long
so long as
so many
so mickle
so mote it be
so much
so much as
so much for
so much so
so much the better
so much the worse
so much the worse for
so on
so-so
so there
so they say
so to say
so to speak
so way
so what
thank ye so very much
the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
there are none so blind as those who will not see
there are none so deaf as those who will not hear
there's none so blind as those who will not see
there's nowt so queer as folk
though I say so myself
thus and so
told you so
upside down
up so down
whatso
whencesoever
whenso
whereso
whomso
whoso
why so serious
make it so
more so
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: elə
lang: Basque
word: hain
lang: Catalan
word: tan
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 好
roman: hou²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 很
roman: hěn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 非常
roman: fēicháng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 太
roman: tài
lang: Czech
word: tak
lang: Danish
word: så
lang: Dutch
word: zo
lang: Dutch
word: zodanig
lang: Esperanto
word: tiel
lang: Finnish
word: niin
lang: French
word: tellement
lang: French
word: vraiment
lang: French
word: si
lang: German
word: so
lang: German
word: sehr
lang: Greek
word: τόσο
roman: tóso
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὡς
roman: hōs
lang: Ancient Greek
word: οἷον
roman: hoîon
lang: Hebrew
word: כל כך
lang: Hindi
word: इतना
roman: itnā
lang: Hungarian
word: olyan
lang: Hungarian
word: annyira
lang: Indonesian
word: sangat
lang: Italian
word: tanto
lang: Italian
word: veramente
lang: Japanese
word: とても
roman: totemo
lang: Korean
word: 너무
roman: neomu
lang: Korean
word: 매우
roman: mae'u
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: wisa
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: pir
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: gelekî
lang: Latin
word: tam
lang: Malay
word: sangat
lang: Malay
word: -nya
lang: Norwegian
word: så
lang: Occitan
word: tan
lang: Old English
word: swā
lang: Polish
word: tak
lang: Portuguese
word: tão
lang: Romanian
word: atât
lang: Russian
word: о́чень
roman: óčenʹ
lang: Russian
word: так
roman: tak
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cho
lang: Slovene
word: tako
lang: Spanish
word: tan
lang: Spanish
word: más
lang: Swedish
word: så
lang: Turkish
word: o kadar
lang: Ukrainian
word: ду́же
roman: dúže
lang: Vietnamese
word: rất
lang: Vietnamese
word: lắm
lang: Vietnamese
word: lém
lang: Volapük
word: so
lang: Walloon
word: si
lang: Walloon
word: si télmint
lang: Welsh
word: mor
lang: Armenian
word: այնքան
roman: aynkʻan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bu qədər
lang: Belarusian
word: так
roman: tak
lang: Bulgarian
word: така́
roman: taká
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 咁
roman: gam³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 這麼 /这么
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 这么
roman: zhème
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 那麼 /那么
roman: nàme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 那么
roman: nàme
lang: Czech
word: takto
lang: Czech
word: takhle
lang: Esperanto
word: tiom
lang: French
word: aussi
lang: Georgian
word: იმდენად
roman: imdenad
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὅσον
roman: hóson
lang: Hindi
word: यथा
roman: yathā
lang: Hungarian
word: ilyen
lang: Hungarian
word: ennyire
lang: Ingrian
word: niin
lang: Ingrian
word: näin
lang: Ingrian
word: noin
lang: Irish
word: chomh
lang: Italian
word: così
lang: Japanese
word: そう
roman: sō
lang: Japanese
word: こんなに
roman: konna ni
lang: Japanese
word: それほど
roman: sorehodo
lang: Japanese
word: このように
roman: kono yō ni
lang: Kashubian
word: tak
lang: Korean
word: 그렇게
roman: geureoke
lang: Macedonian
word: та́ка
roman: táka
lang: Polish
word: aż
lang: Sanskrit
word: यथा
roman: yathā
lang: Sanskrit
word: एवम्
roman: evam
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: та̀ко̄
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tàkō
lang: Slovak
word: tak
lang: Slovak
word: takto
lang: Thai
word: มาก
roman: mâak
lang: Turkish
word: kadar
lang: Ukrainian
word: так
roman: tak
lang: Urdu
word: اتنا
roman: itnā
lang: Vietnamese
word: vậy
lang: Vietnamese
word: như vậy
lang: Esperanto
word: tre
lang: Finnish
word: tosi