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co

nounpronouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəʊ//
  • United States//koʊ//

Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of companyClipping of company.

Etymology

Clipping of company.

pronoun

  1. 1

    Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

    Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

    At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context and different terms in a Euro-American cultural context than in other racial and ethnic contexts.

    A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our gravity flux was low - co's head struck the surface with enough force to kill on impact.

  2. 2

    Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

Etymology

Coined by feminist writer Mary Orovan in 1970; in common usage in intentional communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.

Forms

plural
cos
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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).