O — English Dictionary

Character

1. The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

   Usage

   • letter
   • uppercase

   Examples

   "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)

Noun

1. Something shaped like the letter O.

   Examples

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   She was lying in the lee of a fowlhouse in a crumpled posture, as if cohesion had been detached from her joints, which lobbed her in an untidy heap, like a lot of old bones, tied together with string. Her skull was hitched under her humped shoulders and her fallen jaw made a lipless O of her mouth, giving it an expression of imbecile astonishment.

2. A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may only receive transfusions of similar type O blood, but may donate to all (neglecting Rh factor). Synonym: universal donor.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

Numeral

1. The fifteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

   Usage

   • uppercase
   • number

Particle

1. The vocative particle, used for direct address.

   Examples

   O Death! O Death! Won't you spare me over till another year? - part of the refrain from the American folk song "A Conversation with Death".

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   Therfore arte thou inexcuſable o man whoſoever thou be that iudgeſt. For in that ſame where in thou iudgeſt another / thou cõdemneſt thy ſilfe. For thou that iudgeſt doest evẽ the ſame ſilfe thynges. […] Thynkeſt thou O man that iudgeſt them which do ſoche thyngꝭ and yet doſt evẽ the very ſame / that thou ſhalt eſcape the iudgemẽt of God?

   c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Macbeth O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: […]

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   “Lift up your head and your heart, O King. We must follow after this dreadnought, hard on her tracks.”

Noun

1. An utterance of the vocative O.

   Related words

   lalooh

Noun

1. American Library Association abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

2. Someone associated with Leyton Orient Football Club, as a player, coach, supporter etc.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

3. The number of overs bowled.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

4. Orgasm.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Slang
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   big O

   Examples

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   Sunny felt some cold and wet press against her pussy, it startled her, then it's^([sic]) tongue went deep inside of her, she had been eaten out before, but never this could, who ever was doing it was a real pro, and had to have the longest tongue in the world it was buried at least three inches inside of her and was taking long, hard strokes, it was trying to get even deeper, it was only seconds before she started shaking from her first O.

   Further on, when she's about to reach her first O, the taste turns from no taste to champagne-like.

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   She thought you could get pregnant from tonguing when kissing; about her first O and how it scared her; how she looked in the mirror afterwards to see if she had changed; about how scared she was when it came time to deliver the baby.

   Now my friend was fingering my wife and licking her clit. My wife reached her first O of the night.

5. Opium.

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   We lay on our stomachs on the living-room floor in a circle around our host, a skinny little man who said he'd been smoking O for 20 years.

Proper noun

1. A surname from Korean.

Proper noun

1. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

Adjective

1. With sugar and no condensed milk added.

   Usage

   • Singapore
   • Colloquial
   • not-comparable
   • used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)

   Related words

   Cdi logah daigaukosongpengposiew daiexie-osiesNOxO-ringOSETI

   Examples

   Better try their kopi-o tarik. Our version nowadays taste like cough medicine. LOL!

Noun

1. a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

   Synonyms

   oxygenatomic number 8

   Broader terms

   chemical elementelementgas

2. the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet

   Synonyms

   o

   Broader terms

   letterletter of the alphabetalphabetic character

3. the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens

   Synonyms

   type Ogroup O

   Broader terms

   blood groupblood type

   Examples

   people with type O blood are universal donors