them

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

   Those ones.

   She treated them for a cold.

2. 2
   pron

   A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

   If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.

3. 3
   pron

   They or those.

   I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.

4. 4
   det

   Those.

   Gimme two of them yellow ones.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.