ah

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interjection

(used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)

Ah

or a.h.

ampere-hour.

A.H.

in the year of the Hijra; since the Hijra (a.d. 622).

Origin of A.H.

From the New Latin word annō Hejirae

A.H.

occurring in a specific year of the Jewish calendar.

Origin of A.H.

From the New Latin word annō Hebraico

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Related Words for ah

exclamation, wow, amen, hello, alas, boo, hurrah, ahem, oh, whoopee, hooray, shucks, er, ouch, rah, ah, egad, golly, hey, huh

Examples from the Web for ah

Contemporary Examples of ah

Ah, gay Paree—the French capital has practically announced its own LGBT friendliness since the Belle Époque.
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December 12, 2014
The man who would become the most influential fictionalist of the last half of the 20th century cried, “Ah, caramba!”
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October 24, 2014
Ah, yeah, when you said seminar I thought you attended some sort of corporate speech.
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Alex Suskind
September 9, 2014
"Ah, that trip with Lance," he said, then glanced down, with those melancholy eyes.
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Matthew Kaminski
August 20, 2014
We have moments of self-reflection in our real lives where you think, “Ah, why did I do that?”
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Marlow Stern
August 1, 2014

Historical Examples of ah

Ah, they are of their insignificance so loftily unconscious.
The Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
Ah, I remember the night I was converted, as if it were yesterday.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
Various
Ah, how much is done in the night when we sleep and know nothing!
Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald
It was a strange group in the gray of the new morning—ah, indeed, a new morning for them!
Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald
Ah, could I have descended, could I have come down, ere he fled!
The White Company
Arthur Conan Doyle

British Dictionary definitions for ah

ah

interjection

an exclamation expressing pleasure, pain, sympathy, etc, according to the intonation of the speaker

AH

abbreviation for (indicating years in the Muslim system of dating, numbered from the Hegira (622 AD))

anno Hegirae

Word Origin for AH

Latin

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Word Origin and History for ah

mid-15c., an expression of surprise, delight, disgust or pain in nearly all Indo-European languages, but not found in Old English (where the equivalent expression was la!), so perhaps from Old French a "ah!, oh! woe!"