OES
- Office of Economic Stabilization.
- Order of the Eastern Star.
O, o
- 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.
oe
- oy2.
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 exclamation “O.”
Origin of O
oy2
or oe
- a grandchild.
- Obsolete. a nephew or niece.
Origin of oy2
Related Words
force, dash, juice, intensity, initiative, go, endurance, liveliness, application, animation, fortitude, effectiveness, might, exertion, life, efficacy, fire, ardor, activity, efficiencyExamples from the Web for oes
Contemporary Examples
The OES syndrome does not manifest itself like Margaret Dumont playing society lady to Groucho Marx.
The people who suffer from this syndrome have been labeled by many other Americans as overeducated elitist snobs [OES].
Historical Examples
Helladius called him Oes, but says he had the feet of a man, and sprang from a mundane egg.
Oes are violent whirlwinds off the Faeroe Islands, said at times to raise the water in syphons.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth
OES Bobby think he is the only one who can tell stories connected with snow and ice?'
Chatterbox, 1906Various
o
O
- 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
Oe
- oersted
OE
- Old English (language)
Oë
- Kenzaburo (kɛnzəˈbʊrəʊ). born 1935, Japanese novelist and writer; his books include The Catch (1958), A Personal Matter (1964), and Silent Cry (1989): Nobel prize for literature 1994
O1
- chem oxygen
- a human blood type of the ABO groupSee universal donor
- logic a particular negative categorial proposition, such as some men are not married: often symbolized as SoPCompare A, E, I 2
- Australian slang offence
Word Origin
O2
- a variant spelling of oh
- an exclamation introducing an invocation, entreaty, wish, etcO God!; O for the wings of a dove!
Word Origin and History for oes
o
interjection of fear, surprise, admiration, etc.; see oh.
O
blood type, 1926, originally "zero," denoting absence of A and B agglutinogens.
oe
found in Greek borrowings into Latin, representing Greek -oi-. Words with -oe- that came early into English from Old French or Medieval Latin usually already had been levelled to -e- (e.g. economic, penal, cemetery), but later borrowings directly from Latin or Greek tended to retain it at first (oestrus, diarrhoea, amoeba) as did proper names (Oedipus, Phoebe, Phoenix) and purely technical terms. British English tends to be more conservative with it than American, which has done away with it in all but a few instances.
It also occurred in some native Latin words (foedus "treaty, league," foetere "to stink," hence occasionally in English foetid, foederal, which was the form in the original publications of the "Federalist" papers). In these it represents an ancient -oi- in Old Latin (e.g. Old Latin oino, Classical Latin unus), which apparently passed through an -oe- form before being levelled out but was preserved into Classical Latin in certain words, especially those belonging to the realms of law (e.g. foedus) and religion, which, along with the vocabulary of sailors, are the most conservative branches of any language in any time, through a need for precision, immediate comprehension, demonstration of learning, or superstition. But in foetus it was an unetymological spelling in Latin that was picked up in English and formed the predominant spelling of fetus into the early 20c.
oy
Yiddish exclamation of dismay, 1892, American English. Extended form oy vey (1959) includes Yiddish vey, from German Weh "woe" (see woe).
O
- The symbol for oxygen.