the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
any spoken sound represented by the letter O or o, as in box, note, short, or love .
something having the shape of an O .
a written or printed representation of the letter O or o.
a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter O or o.
(used before a name in direct address, especially in solemn or poetic language, to lend earnestness to an appeal).
Hear, O Israel!
(used as an expression of surprise, pain, annoyance, longing, gladness, etc.)
the fifteenth in order or in a series.
the Arabic cipher; zero.
(sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 11.
Physiology. a major blood group, usually enabling a person whose blood is of this type to donate blood to persons of group O, A, B, or AB and to receive blood from persons of group O.
Chemistry. oxygen.
Logic. particular negative.
a suffix occurring as the final element in informal shortenings of nouns (ammo; combo; condo; limo; promo ); -o also forms nouns, usually derogatory, for persons or things exemplifying or associated with that specified by the base noun or adjective (cheapo; pinko; sicko; weirdo; wino ).
a suffix occurring in colloquial noun or adjective derivatives, usually grammatically isolated, as in address.
cheerio; kiddo; neato; righto.
octavo.
off.
old.
only.
order.
Baseball. out; outs.
Ocean.
octavo.
October.
Ohio.
Old.
Ontario.
Oregon.
chem oxygen
a human blood type of the ABO group See universal donor
logic a particular negative categorial proposition, such as some men are not married: often symbolized as SoP Compare A E I 2
the 15th letter and fourth vowel of the modern English alphabet
any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in code, pot, cow, move, or form
another name for nought
a variant spelling of oh
an exclamation introducing an invocation, entreaty, wish, etc
O God!
O for the wings of a dove!
First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ō
From Middle English; by shortening
Representing Irish ó descendant, Old Irish au
Perhaps originally the interjection O, appended to words as in -o def. 2; as a derivational suffix reinforced by clipped forms of words with -o- as a linking element (e.g., photo, stereo ), by Rom nouns ending in o, and by personal nouns such as bimbo and bozo, of obscure origin
From the Latin word octārius
Middle English (< Old French ) < Latin < Greek
From the Latin word octārius
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At week's end a Russian delegation got the signatures of the leaders of Kazakhstan on a similar agreement-to-try-t o- agree.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soft, long-drawn "o- ohs!" that came to his ears were full of a music that made him impervious to pain.
From Green Fancy by McCutcheon, George Barr
It is hence possible to employ crude cresol, which contains varying quantities of the o-, m-, and p-compounds, in the manufacture of these tanning matters.
From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg
Quintilianus saieth, that Ethopœia is a imitacion of o- ther meane maners: whom the Grekes dooe calle, not onelie Ethopœia, but mimesis, & this is in the maners, and the fact.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard
B-- -o-ey -o---- -o yo- -ro- old --ore le-- ---a-d --a- ---y --are -or -olle----- -or yo--o r--- --ll -all o- yo- ---r-day a- -o-r -e-.
From The Crevice by Grefé, Will
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