thruout

English

Etymology

See thru.

Preposition

thruout

1. (US, Canada) Nonstandard spelling of throughout.
   • 1920 May, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 78, column 2:

     He connected the bulb in circuit with his conventional radio apparatus, using the same circuits for additional electrodes that he had used thruout his experiments with the thing.

   • 1943, Billboard, volume 55, number 3:

     It led to a drive against screeno as used in movie houses thruout the city.

   • 1950 March 4, John Evans, “Notes on News in Religion”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CIX, number 54, Chicago, Ill., page 8:

     St. Paul arrived in Greece 1,900 years ago this summer. It was a momentous event for the peoples of the western world. To signalize this undevicesimal centennial, the Greek Orthodox church is inviting scholars and religious leaders thruout the world to Athens for a delayed celebration in June of 1951.

Adverb

thruout (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada) Nonstandard spelling of throughout.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thruout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)