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Theo

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈθiːəʊ//
  • United States//ˈθioʊ//

A male given name from Ancient Greek and nickname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Ancient Greek and nickname.

    He has three teeth and two names: Theodore, which is what health visitors call him, and Theo, which is what I call him.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Theodora.

Etymology

Short form of Theodore, or of the rare given names Theobald, Theophilus or Theodoric, or of Theodora.

Forms

plural
Theos
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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).