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[ English

[ Etymology

Middle English, from Old English swilc, swylc

[ Pronunciation

• IPA: /sʌʧ/, SAMPA: /sVtS/
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• Rhymes: -ʌtʃ

[ Adjective

such (comparative more such, superlative most such)

1. like this, that, these, those; Used to make a comparison with something implied by context.

   I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.

   Such is life.

2. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to so much of.

   The party was such a bore.

[ Related terms

• as such
• thus and such
• such and such
• such as
• such like
• such that
• suchness

[ Translations

[ Determiner

[ Pronoun

1. a person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned
   • 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:

     These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.

   • 1988, Miguel Urrutia, Setsuko Yukawa, Economic Development Policies in Resource-rich Countries, page 46:

     Thus, it is not the coffee boom as such which caused the stagnation of the manufacturing sector in Colombia.

   • 2000, Terry Goodkind, Faith of thee Fallen (ISBN 0312867867), page 238:

     Some are just no—good locals—drunks and such—who’d just as soon beg or steal as work.

[ German

[ Verb

1. Conjugated form of suchen.