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adverb
So  adv.  
1.
In that manner or degree; as, indicated (in any way), or as implied, or as supposed to be known. "Why is his chariot so long in coming?"
2.
In like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as. "As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in."
3.
In such manner; to such degree; used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape. "I viewed in may mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world." "He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent."
4.
Very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely.
5.
In the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate. "Use him (your tutor) with great respect yourself, and cause all your family to do so too." "It concerns every man, with the greatest seriousness, to inquire into those matters, whether they be so or not." "He is Sir Robert's son, and so art thou."
6.
The case being such; therefore; on this account; for this reason; on these terms; used both as an adverb and a conjuction. "God makes him in his own image an intellectual creature, and so capable of dominion." "Here, then, exchange we mutually forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten."
7.
It is well; let it be as it is, or let it come to pass; used to express assent. "And when 't is writ, for my sake read it over, And if it please you, so; if not, why, so." "There is Percy; if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself."
8.
Well; the fact being as stated; used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it?
9.
Is it thus? do you mean what you say? with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? So? (Colloq.)
10.
About the number, time, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, I will spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so. "A week or so will probably reconcile us." Note: See the Note under Ill, adv.
So... as. So is used as a demonstrative correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By Shakespeare and others so... as was much used where as... as is now common. See the Note under As, 1. "So do, as thou hast said." "As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." "Had woman been so strong as men." "No country suffered so much as England."
So far, to that point or extent; in that particular. "The song was moral, and so far was right."
So far forth, as far; to such a degree.
So forth, further in the same or similar manner; more of the same or a similar kind. See And so forth, under And.
So, so, well, well. "So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit you fast." Also, moderately or tolerably well; passably; as, he succeeded but so so. "His leg is but so so."
So that, to the end that; in order that; with the effect or result that.
So then, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is.


conjunction
So  conj.  Provided that; on condition that; in case that; if. "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength."


interjection
So  interj.  Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.





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"So" Quotes from Famous Books



... if at all, to the "Protestant ascendency," nor yet to the alleged superiority of the Northern over the Southern Irish in energy and thrift, For in the seventeenth century Limerick was more important than Cork, whereas it had so far fallen behind its Southern competitor in the eighteenth century that it contained in 1781 but 3859 houses, while Cork contained 5295. To-day its population is about half as large as that of Cork. It is a very well built city, its main thoroughfare, George Street, ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert
... epilogue to the third book certainly appears to mean that during the course of the translation, in order to fulfil his promise of multiplying copies, he had learned to print. He might easily have done so in the six months during which he remained in Cologne, or during his stay in Ghent. That it was in Cologne rather than elsewhere, is confirmed by the oft-quoted stanza added by Wynkyn de Worde as a colophon to the English edition ...
— A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 • Henry R. Plomer
... so successful, so easy, and so formidable, shall be changed, whether it shall be changed at a time when the whole continent is in commotion, and every nation calling soldiers to its standard; when the French, recovered from their defeats, seem to have forgotten the force of that hand that ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10. - Parlimentary Debates I. • Samuel Johnson
... some Tzigana musicians, whom the Prince had sent for, arrived at the castle. Marsa felt invigorated when she heard the czimbalom and the piercing notes of the czardas. She had been longing for those harmonies and songs which lay so near her heart. She listened, with her hand clasped in that of Andras, and through the open window came the "March of Rakoczy," the same strains which long ago had been played in Paris, upon the boat which bore them down ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... cow, to especial beatitude—the object of veneration being a lingam of black stone enshrined in a temple, the guardianship of which is jointly vested in five resident families of Bramins. "At this time," says the colonel, "the place is not worth keeping, the country being so thoroughly impoverished and desolate;" and he accordingly, after viewing the marvels of the locality, pursued his way to Banda, and thence laid a dak (or travelled by palanquin with relays of bearers) to Calpee, "there to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various


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