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c

characternumeralprepositionadverbnounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //siː//
  • //k//
  • //s//
  • //tʃ//

The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

character

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    The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).

numeral

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    The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

preposition

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    Variant of c.Alternative form of c.

Etymology

Abbreviations.

adverb

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    Variant of c.Alternative form of c.

noun

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    Variant of c.Alternative form of c.

noun

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    The middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.

verb

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    Variant of seeAbbreviation of see.

    Apurv replied, “Hello...nice to c u online!”

    C u 2nite as planned.

    Hey! Had fun talking 2 u 2day. C u tmrw.

Forms

plural
cs, c'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).