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meu

British  
/ mjuː /

noun

  1. another name for spignel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of meu

C16: from Latin mēum, from Greek mēon

Example Sentences

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“Mas o meu samba transcende,” he sings — “But my samba transcends” — just as his band sets up a broodingly buoyant groove.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2010

Houlston sends his kind regards to you, and says he shall be very happy to meet you again Adeos, meu amigo—that is, Good-bye, my friend.

From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.

As we entered it he pointed to a pot full of greasy stuff under a dwarf shed, saying, "Isso è meu Deus:" it was in fact his Baka chya Mazinga.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

We shall never see Brazil again, Salvador meu!

From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis

"E meu ru ru a vau," it ran, and that was all of it, sung in a stately, endless, ever-varying chant, accompanied by solemn chords from the ukelele.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

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