p
abbreviation
p
1 Americanabbreviation
p
2
American
abbreviation
P
3
American
[pee]
/ pi /
Or
p
noun
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P's,
plural
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Ps,
plural
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p's,
plural
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ps
plural
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the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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any spoken sound represented by the letter P or p, as in pet, supper, top, etc.
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something having the shape of a P .
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a written or printed representation of the letter P or p.
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a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter P or p.
P
4
American
abbreviation
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Education. (as a rating of student performance) passing.
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Chess. pawn.
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Electronics. plate.
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poor.
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Grammar. predicate.
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Protestant.
P
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American
Symbol.
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the 16th in order or in a series.
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(sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 400.
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Genetics. parental.
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Chemistry. phosphorus.
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Physics.
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Chemistry. proton.
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Biochemistry. proline.
p-
6
American
abbreviation
P-
7
American
abbreviation
p.
8
American
abbreviation
p.
9
American
abbreviation
p.
10
American
abbreviation
p.
11
American
abbreviation
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page.
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part.
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participle.
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past.
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Chess. pawn.
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penny; pence.
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per.
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Grammar. person.
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peseta.
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peso.
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pint.
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pipe.
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Baseball. pitcher.
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pole.
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population.
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president.
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pressure.
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purl.
P.
12
American
abbreviation
P.
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American
abbreviation
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pastor.
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peseta.
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peso.
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post.
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president.
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pressure.
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priest.
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prince.
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progressive.
P
1
British
symbol
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chem phosphorus
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physics
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pressure
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power
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parity
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poise
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(on road signs) parking
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chess pawn
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currency
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(the former) peseta
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peso
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pataca
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pula
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abbreviation
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Portugal (international car registration)
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pharmacy only: used to label medicines that can be obtained without a prescription, but only at a shop at which there is a pharmacist
p.
2
British
abbreviation
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page
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part
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participle
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past
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per
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post
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pro
p
3
British
symbol
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(in Britain) penny or pence
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music piano: an instruction to play quietly
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pico-
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physics
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momentum
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proton
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pressure
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p
4
British
/ piː /
noun
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the 16th letter and 12th consonant of the modern English alphabet
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a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless bilabial stop, as in pig
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to be careful to behave correctly and use polite or suitable language
p-
5
British
prefix
p
Idioms
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of p1
From the Italian word piano
Origin of p.8
From the Latin word pater
Origin of p.9
From the Italian word piano
Origin of p.10
From the Latin word post
Origin of P.12
From the Latin word Pater
Example Sentences
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Rajadhyaksha points out there is a “remarkably consistent pattern p st most geopolitical conflicts …of an initial shock…then a grind back as economic fundamentals reassert themselves.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
Age also influenced how quickly symptoms followed rising p tau217 levels.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
She appeared p alongside former presenter Holly Willoughby on Willoughby's first show following the departure of her co-host Phillip Schofield.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
The Warriors were without p Draymond Green for personal reasons and Gary Payton II due to an illness.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
“Nope,” he replied, popping the p sound at the end and looking out the window.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
Backyard gardeners like me know it as the P in N-P-K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Test your knowledge of the English language: How many words can you create with the letters P, Y, C, R, O, and T?
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Under typical conditions, Po and So waves form when P and S waves scatter repeatedly through layered structures inside an oceanic plate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
“From there on, Tito Double P was another persona,” said Laija García.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“We’ll find you more just as soon as we get Miss P fixed up,” said Bronwyn.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
“It’s awful hard to ask the girl, ‘Will you go to the p- pr- pr- prom with me?’
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
The antiproton p- is u- u- d , for example.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
It was p- pretty f-f-foggy when we got to the wharf, and we s-saw it wouldn't be s-safe for F-Father and M-M-Mother and B-Betty and Alice and the b-b-baby to go sailing, anyhow.
From The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Edmund Lester Pearson
Transcriber's Note: The hyphen at the end of the third line of the second verse is deliberate in the original, so that "two p-" pronounced as one syllable rhymes with "soup."
From Songs From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
It was something like this: Man with p- Get- Br- We spelled it out slowly.
From The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The time between the P- and S-waves is routinely used to determine the distance to their source, the epicenter of the earthquake.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Mantle rock is generally denser and stronger than crustal rock and both P- and S-waves travel faster through the mantle than they do through the crust.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
And Mr. P-, who was not good at catching what was shouted in the wind, would say interrogatively: “Yes, sir?”
From The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
He will attempt this either by P- KB3 attacking White's centre or by P-KB4 preventing White from playing P-B5.
From Chess Strategy by J. Du Mont
However, all the time I was with them, Captain S- and Mr. P- did not get on very well together.
From The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
For example, where Bromley sounds pedantic or confused, the index picks this up: “Chatham, where and how situated, viz., on the other Side Rochester Bridge, though commonly reported to be on this Side, p. 1.”
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2022
Tours: Tuesday through Saturday from 12:45 p.m. to 3 p. m., subject to availability.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019
“The moral and political obligation to resist use of torture”: 7-9 p. m.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2017
The District Court stayed its order pending appellate review on condition that review was sought before 4 p. m.,
From MSNBC ● Jul. 22, 2015
Opposite p., left: When the sun is not directly overhead, shadows of equal length are cast.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge P. Tamu Usher said she considered Jester’s age and difficult upbringing when deciding how much time he should serve in prison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Given Seward’s popularity, as well as the prominence of other candidates, such as Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron and Edward Bates, this was no small accomplishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"An international wanted notice has been issued... for the head of the Telegram administration, P. Durov," it said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Writing in the Yale Law Journal, Cherneff reconstructed the history of In re Turner, an 1867 decision by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase that helped end the re-enslavement of Black children through involuntary “apprenticeships.”
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Their owners, such as J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, wore diamonds, while their workers wore rags.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
With his raspy vocal intensity and scream-like musical delivery, Mystikal shot to the top of the charts with Master P’s No Limit Records in the late 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
You’re on Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s albums, and they’re featured on yours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
After exhausting all of her options, she opened Ms. P’s Child and Family Services in the downtown Washington area to provide services to middle- and low-income families with disabled children.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
Kakar says to think of these three P’s when heading to the court.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
Then, at Mr. P’s, she armed herself with a fabulous array of candy.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
You need the three Ps: patience, paperwork and perseverance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“You need to be on your Ps and Qs in both categories,” Snead said, “both variables, right, to earn that type of contract.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026
The designers also introduced their new logo in various forms — two abstract letter Ps combined to form an S — on a black sweater, or as hardware on shoes, belts or bags.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Young Thug nearly crosses Sesame Street — “Three Ps, pop, pourin’, Porsches” — but ultimately finds the way back to his native Twilight Zone.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Last night, after studying the tennis photo, she had paged through the Ps in the student sections, searching for James Parker.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
Viewed this way, minding our p’s and q’s is less about proscriptive notions of correctness, and more about mindfulness, self-discovery and proper conduct.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
From this we find a sample proportion, p', and graph it on the axis of p's.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
In one message, he misspelled “tap” with two p’s!
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2017
A gritty band of physicists and data specialists is locked in smash-mouth combat, a battle etched in p’s and chi’s.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2015
"Assistant district attorney. Judge: family court, state supreme court, appellate division. Appellate has two p's and two /'s. Never married, no children."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
Meaningful employment prospects are weak. ps - May we please see the underlying assumptions on which these claims of full employment are based?
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
The standard normal distribution in probability, ps, corresponds to μ = 0 and σ = 1.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
For example, because of their lifetimes of about 1.5 ps and their production at the LHC with momenta between a few GeV/c and ~100 GeV/c, mesons travel up to a few centimetres before they decay.
From Nature ● May 12, 2015
He taught me the bs, ms and ps, and how to place your tongue on the top of your mouth.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010
Pl, as in plume; pld, rippl'd; plst, rippl'st; plz, apples; pr, prince; ps, sips; pst, rapp'st; pt, ripp'd.
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders
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