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characternumeralnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ɛn//

The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

numeral

  1. 1

    The fourteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of navyAbbreviation of navy.

  2. 2

    Variant of northAbbreviation of north (see also n).

  3. 3

    Variant of nounAbbreviation of noun.

  4. 4

    Variant of knightAbbreviation of knight.

    1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 e.p. Nxd6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qe3+ Be7 9. Nbd2 0-0 10. 0-0-0 Re8 11. Kb1 (=)

    The correct answer is 1.Rxf6 Rxf6 2.Rf1 Raf8 3.Qg5 Kg7 4.Nh5+ Other sub-variations work, such as playing 2.Qg5 then 3.Rf1 or playing 4.Bxf6+ first before playing 5.Nh5+.

  5. 5

    Variant of neutralAbbreviation of neutral (“gear selection”).

  6. 6

    Variant of national routeAbbreviation of national route.

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Forms

plural
Ns, N's
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).