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o¹

  • /ˈəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈoʊ/ US

Sounds like O, oh, owe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ

letter O · os · o's

  1. letter, lowercase The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
  2. alternative, letter, lowercase Alternative form of ο, the fifteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, called omicron and (astronomy) used as an abbreviation of omicron in star names.ο The system's Bayer designation is o Persei.

number O · os · o's

  1. lowercase The fifteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

noun oes · oh

  1. The name of the Latin script letter O/o.
  2. A zero (used in reading out numbers). It is currently two-o-five in the afternoon (2:05 PM).

o²

particle

  1. alternative, nonstandard alternative form of O (vocative particle)O I lift my soule to thee o Lord mee, o Iehovah, heare In thee, o Lord, I put my trust

interjection

  1. alternative Alternative form of oh.oh

noun

  1. Internet, abbreviation, acronym Operator
  2. abbreviation, acronym Object, see SVO

adjective

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of over.over

o³

Where it comes from

See o'.

preposition

  1. alternative Alternative form of of.of

O⁴

  • /əʊ/ UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

letter o · Os · O's

  1. letter, uppercase The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script. "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)

noun Os · O's

  1. Something shaped like the letter O. She was lying in the lee of a fowlhouse in a crumpled posture, as if cohesion had been detached from her joints, which lobbed her in an untidy heap, like a lot of old bones, tied together with string. Her skull was hitched under her humped shoulders and her fallen jaw made a lipless O of her mouth,
  2. uncountable A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may only receive transfusions of similar type O blood, but may donate to all (neglecting Rh factor). Synonym: universal donor.

number o · Os · O's

  1. uppercase The fifteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

O⁵

  • /əʊ/ UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Latin ō

Old French ohbor.

Middle English o

English O

From Middle English O, o, from Old English o, from Latin o and Ancient Greek ὦ (ô, interjection). Featured prominently in William Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament.

particle o · ô

  1. The vocative particle, used for direct address. O Death! O Death! Won't you spare me over till another year? - part of the refrain from the American folk song "A Conversation with Death".

noun Oes · o · ô

  1. An utterance of the vocative O.

O⁶

  • /əʊ/ UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

noun Os

  1. countable, uncountable American Library Association abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).
  2. countable, uncountable Someone associated with Leyton Orient Football Club, as a player, coach, supporter etc.
  3. countable, uncountable The number of overs bowled.
  4. countable, slang, uncountable Orgasm. Sunny felt some cold and wet press against her pussy, it startled her, then it's^([sic]) tongue went deep inside of her, she had been eaten out before, but never this could, who ever was doing it was a real pro, and had to have the longest tongue in the world it was buried at least three inches insi
  5. slang, uncountable Opium. We lay on our stomachs on the living-room floor in a circle around our host, a skinny little man who said he'd been smoking O for 20 years.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, historical, not comparable Abbreviation of morally offensive, film classification of the National Legion of Decency.morally offensive
  2. Judaism, abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of Orthodox.Orthodox

O⁷

  • /əʊ/ UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Korean 오(伍) (O) or 오(吳) (O). Doublet of Wu.

proper noun Oh · Oe · Au

  1. A surname from Korean.

O⁸

  • /ʌ/
  • /əʊ/ UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -ʌ, -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 鄂 (È) Wade–Giles romanization: O⁴.

proper noun E

  1. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
  2. alternative Alternative form of E (Ancient Chinese Kingdom)E ACCORDING to various inscriptions about this famous temple we are told that it was erected to the memory of Ya Fei, "An Unswerving Guardian to the Heir-Apparent," of the Sung dynasty; "A Loyal-to-the-end Minister," who came from the ancient state of O-Kuo, the present Wu Ch'ang-fu of Hupei; and that

O⁹

  • /oʊ/ Singapore
  • [ˈoː˦] Singapore
  • [ˈo] Singapore
  • /ɔː(˦)/ Singapore
  • /əʊ/ UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Hokkien 烏 /乌 (o͘, “black”) or Teochew 烏 /乌 (ou¹, “black”).

adjective

  1. Singapore, colloquial, not comparable With sugar and no condensed milk added. Better try their kopi-o tarik. Our version nowadays taste like cough medicine. LOL!

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