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So

adverb
1.
To a very great extent or degree.  "Never been so happy" , "I love you so" , "My head aches so!"
2.
In a manner that facilitates.  "He stooped down so he could pick up his hat"
3.
In such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied.  "So live your life that old age will bring no regrets"
4.
To a certain unspecified extent or degree.  "Can do only so much in a day"
5.
In the same way; also.  "Worked hard and so did she"
6.
In the way indicated.  Synonyms: thus, thusly.  "Set up the pieces thus"
7.
(usually followed by 'that') to an extent or degree as expressed.  "So dirty that it smells"
8.
Subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors).  Synonyms: and so, and then, then.  "Go left first, then right" , "First came lightning, then thunder" , "We watched the late movie and then went to bed" , "And so home and to bed"
9.
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result.  Synonyms: hence, thence, therefore, thus.  "The eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory" , "We were young and thence optimistic" , "It is late and thus we must go" , "The witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
10.
In truth (often tends to intensify).  Synonym: indeed.  "It is very cold indeed" , "Was indeed grateful" , "Indeed, the rain may still come" , "He did so do it!"
noun
1.
The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.  Synonyms: soh, sol.



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"So" Quotes from Famous Books



... "this is the safest weapon. No instrument I've ever used has done me such good service. It shall be the bludgeon." So saying, he ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... of the wells are worth a fortune. But, on the other hand, you must remember that many of the tracts that are supposed to have oil on them have so far proved to be utterly dry. Men spend ten to forty thousand dollars in sinking a well only to find in the end that they have had their labor ...
— The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck - Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields • Edward Stratemeyer
... you," he cried heartily. "And I know most folks would think losing forty thousand dollars was about as bad as it could be. Jane, now, is all worked up over it; can't sleep nights, and has gone back to turning down the gas and eating sour cream so's to save and help make it up. But me—I call it the best thing that ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... little rain water. Camped. The plain still continues with very low rises at intervals; the scrub is much thicker and the greater part of it dead, which makes it very difficult to travel through. The grass is not so plentiful, and it is more sandy. The creek that we crossed at seven miles was running; it had salt tea-tree on its banks, and seems likely to have some permanent water either above or below. I did not examine it, because, the ...
— Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart • John McDouall Stuart
... some information along with my option on the stock next day, so that both the Little Woman and myself could converse quite technically by bed-time. We knew that we had "put up a ten per cent. margin" and had an "option" at twelve dollars a share on a hundred shares of the ...
— The Van Dwellers - A Strenuous Quest for a Home • Albert Bigelow Paine


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