Though (t͡hō), conj. [OE. thogh, þah, AS. ðeáh, ðǣh, ðēh; akin to OS. thōh, OFries. thach, D. & G. doch but, yet, OHG. doh but, yet though, Icel. þō yet, nevertheless, Sw. dock, Dan. dog, Goth. þáuh, þáu, than, or, yet; of uncertain origin. √184.] 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.
☞ It is compounded with all in although. See Although.
As though, as if.
In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded. Gen. xl. 10.