du

¹

[doo, dyoo, dy]

1. (in names of French derivation) a contraction of de and the article le:

   Joachim du Bellay.

Du.

²

abbreviation

1. Duke.

2. Dutch.

Du.

¹

abbreviation

1. Duke

2. Dutch

DU

²

abbreviation

1. depleted uranium

Example Sentences

So high was the mortality rate from this unspeakable procedure that in 1868 the French explorer Count Raoul du Bisson estimated that 35,000 African boys were losing their lives annually in Sudan for a harvest of 3,800 eunuchs.

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For decades, it has held the Tour du Rwanda, a pro-level stage race looping through the countryside.

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From Thomas Mann to Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon, novelists have been drawn to the watery labyrinth where solid ground routinely crumbles and where certainty—even identity itself—might dissolve.

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The convivial Table du Square is one of Véronique’s firm favorites.

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At an earlier inquest hearing in 2023, Lynne Forbes, manager of the home, which is owned by Coed Du Hall Ltd, was asked whether she accepted that giving Ms Thomas even a small piece of doughnut did not comply with her care plan.

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