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🚗 Across a place 📅 Up to and including 📖 From start to end 🚆 Without stopping
thru

thru

8.3
Up to and including a particular day or time
  • adposition
  • /θru/
  • Informal
translation icon : hasta
  • NOW THRU MONDAY!

Examples

  • The store is having a sale NOW THRU SATURDAY.

  • It was a tony joint with a canopy to the street, rows of miniature white lights defining the roof line, and a sign advertising DANCING WED THRU SAT / JOHNNY WILTON'S BIG BAND.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The festival runs THRU the end of the month.

  • You can submit your application THRU next Friday.

Synonyms

through
vsthru
∞ 1.0

From one side of something to the other by going inside it

is an informal spelling used for temporal ranges up to and including days
thro'
vsthru
  • Archaic
9.9

An old poetic spelling used in writing for the word meaning moving from one side to the other

is an informal modern spelling used to mean up to and including dates

Compounds

drive-thru
  • US
23 2.5

A place, like a restaurant or bank, where you buy things without leaving your car

How Formal

until
∞ 1.0
through
416 1.0
thru
  • Informal
8.3

Surface Forms

thru main

Etymology

Thru is an informal form of through, from the old English thurh meaning 'through'. Because through can mean 'from start to end', people use thru in schedules and signs to mean 'up to and including' a stated time or day.