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o1 definition

o or O (ō)

noun pl. O's, o's

  1. the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek omega and omicron, both borrowed from the Phoenician
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the vowel (ō) of boat, (ä) of hot, or (ô) of wrong
  3. a type or impression for o or O
  4. the fifteenth in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of o or O
  2. fifteenth in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like ; circular or oval in shape
o2 definition

o

  1. octavo
  2. old
  3. only
O1 definition

O (ō)

noun pl. O's

  1. popularly the figure zero; nought: in printed matter, zero is usually differentiated from the letter O, as in this dictionary: “O” is the character used for the letter, “0” is the character used for the number
  2. a blood type
O2 definition

O (ō)

interjection

  1. used in direct address O Lord!
  2. used to express surprise, wonder, fear, pain, etc.: now usually oh
  3. used at the end of a line in some ballads

noun pl. O's

an instance of this exclamation
O3 definition

O

  1. Ocean
  2. October
  3. Ohio
  4. Physics ohm
  5. Linguis. Old OFr
  6. Ontario
  7. Baseball out(s)
  8. Etymology: L octarius

    Pharmacy pint
O4 definition

O

oxygen
o' definition

o' (ō, ə)

of will-o'-the-wisp

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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