Etymology

From Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms derived from Old English#THROUGHOUT þurh ūt, equivalent to through +‎ outCategory:English compound terms#THROUGHOUT. Compare German durchaus (“all the way, fully, absolutely”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: thro͞o-outʹ, IPA^(key): /θɹuːˈaʊt/Category:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /θɹuˈʌʊt/Category:English 3-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT
• (reduced also) IPA^(key): /θɹaʊt/Category:English 1-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /t̪ɹʉuˈaʊt̞/Category:English 3-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /tɹʲuːˈæʊ/, /tɹʲuːˈæʊʔ/, /tɹʲuːˈɛʊ/, /tɹʲuːˈɛʊʔ/Category:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English 3-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English 3-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT
• (African-American Vernacular, African-American) IPA^(key): /θuːˈaʊt/, /θuːˈæt/Category:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT, enPR: tho͞o-outʹ, tho͞o-atʹ

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ʰru.awʈ/, /t̪ʰrʊˈwawʈ/Category:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English 2-syllable words#THROUGHOUTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THROUGHOUT
• Rhymes: -aʊtCategory:Rhymes:English/aʊt#THROUGHOUTCategory:Rhymes:English/aʊt/2 syllables#THROUGHOUT

Preposition

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1. In every part of; all through.

   Synonyms: across, amidst, during

   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, §5:

     And though a philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society.

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   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

     “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]”

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   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

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2. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#THROUGHOUT) Completely through, right the way through.
   • 1560, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Arthur of Brytayn: the hystory of the moost noble and valyaunt knyght Arthur of lytell brytayne:

     His spere went clene thrughout hys body, and so he fell downe deed.

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   • 1561, John Heywood, Seneca's Hercules Furens:

     The dedlye sworde throughout my brest to stryke I will applye.

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   • 1756, William Hamilton, A New Edition of the Life and Heroick Actions of the renoun'd Sir William Wallace, page 33:

     His barnisht blad throughout his body share,

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   • 1778, Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry:

     Palamon at seeing Arcite , feels a colde fwerde glide throughout his heart: he starts from his ambuscade, and instantly salutes Areite with the appellation of false traitour.

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Adverb

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1. In every part; everywhere.

   The apartment is parqueted throughout except for the kitchen and bathroom.Category:English terms with usage examples#THROUGHOUT

2. During an entire period of time, the whole time.

   The fight was excrutiating. Throughout, we maintained our dignity though.Category:English terms with usage examples#THROUGHOUT

   • 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves‎:

     Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.

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3. (heraldryCategory:en:Heraldry#THROUGHOUT) Of an ordinary such as a pile or chevron, or a partition per chevron, etc: extending to the edge of the field (or quarter, chief, etc).
   • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 90:

     Thus the VON VÖLCKER of Frankfurt bear : Argent, a rose gules, the field embrassé à senestre of the second. We should blazon this : Gules, a pile throughout issuing from the dexter flank, charged with a rose of the field.

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See also

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