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characternumeralnoundeterminercommon in dialogue

  • //kjuː//
  • //k//

The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

numeral

  1. 1

    The seventeenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of non-automatic qualificationAbbreviation of non-automatic qualification, indicating an athlete who qualifies to the next round either by time as a fastest loser (in track events) or by position without achieving the qualifying target (in field events).

  2. 2

    Variant of questionAbbreviation of question.

    We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖

Etymology

Abbreviation.

determiner

  1. 1

    Each, every (with a time interval).

    175 mg/m² q 3 wks

Etymology

From Latin quaque (“every”).

Forms

plural
qs, q'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).