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ou¹

  • /ˈəʊ.uː/ UK

Rhymes with -əʊuː

Where it comes from

From Hawaiian ʻōʻū.

noun ous

  1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.

ou²

  • /əʊ/ General South African, UK
  • /oʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”).

noun ous · ouens

  1. South Africa, colloquial A fellow, guy, bloke. Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee

OU³

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Open University
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Ohio University

    Similar: Ohio

  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of University of Oklahoma

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: soit, sinon, autrement, voire, au choix, au besoin, are, la rochefoucauld, tautoousian, wysiwyg, ana, abscissa, ap, caption, cf, channel

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noun extinct honeycreeper

한국어오우 ou
中文鸚嘴雀 /鹦嘴雀 yīngzuǐquè
Françaispsittirostre psittacin
Русскийоу ou

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@misc{ou_2026,
  title = {ou},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ou},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}