| Noun | 1. | thus - an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigationgum - any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying | |
| Adv. | 1. | thus - (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "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" | |
| 2. | thus - in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) | |