O

character

1. 1

   The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

   "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)

nom

1. 1

   Something shaped like the letter O.

   She was lying in the lee of a fowlhouse in a crumpled posture, as if cohesion had been detached from her joints, which lobbed her in an untidy heap, like a lot of old bones, tied together with string. Her skull was hitched under her humped shoulders and her fallen jaw made a lipless O of her mouth, giving it an expression of imbecile astonishment.

2. 2

   A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may only receive transfusions of similar type O blood, but may donate to all (neglecting Rh factor). Synonym: universal donor.

numéral

1. 1

   The fifteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

particle

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   The vocative particle, used for direct address.

   O Death! O Death! Won't you spare me over till another year? - part of the refrain from the American folk song "A Conversation with Death".

   Therfore arte thou inexcuſable o man whoſoever thou be that iudgeſt. For in that ſame where in thou iudgeſt another / thou cõdemneſt thy ſilfe. For thou that iudgeſt doest evẽ the ſame ſilfe thynges. […] Thynkeſt thou O man that iudgeſt them which do ſoche thyngꝭ and yet doſt evẽ the very ſame / that thou ſhalt eſcape the iudgemẽt of God?

   c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Macbeth O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: […]

   “Lift up your head and your heart, O King. We must follow after this dreadnought, hard on her tracks.”

nom

1. 1

   An utterance of the vocative O.

nom

1. 1

   American Library Association abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).

2. 2

   Someone associated with Leyton Orient Football Club, as a player, coach, supporter etc.

3. 3

   The number of overs bowled.

4. 4

   argotOrgasm.

   Further on, when she's about to reach her first O, the taste turns from no taste to champagne-like.

   She thought you could get pregnant from tonguing when kissing; about her first O and how it scared her; how she looked in the mirror afterwards to see if she had changed; about how scared she was when it came time to deliver the baby.

   Now my friend was fingering my wife and licking her clit. My wife reached her first O of the night.

5. 5

   argotOpium.

   We lay on our stomachs on the living-room floor in a circle around our host, a skinny little man who said he'd been smoking O for 20 years.

adjectif

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   Variante de morally offensivehistoriqueAbbreviation of morally offensive, film classification of the National Legion of Decency.

2. 2

   Variante de OrthodoxAbbreviation of Orthodox.

nom propre

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   A surname from Korean.

nom propre

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   A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

2. 2

   Variante de EAlternative form of E (Ancient Chinese Kingdom)

   In ancient times Wuchang was the capital city of the Kingdom of O. In Manchu times it was the residence of the Viceroy of the two provinces of Hupeh and Hunan. Since then its fortunes have changed with changing politics.

   ⁶There are actually several geographical identifications proposed for the State of O: Wu-ch'ang in Hupei, Huai-ch'ing in Honan, and Fu-fang, Shensi (in the south-east thereof). As two inscriptions connected with the State of O refer to invasions....

   […]Yang-yüeh 楊粵,⁴⁰ reaching as far as O 鄂.⁴¹[…]He then enthroned his elder son K'ang 康⁴³ as King of Kou Tan 句亶,⁴⁴ his middle song Hung 紅 as King of O 鄂,⁴⁵ and his younger son Chih-tz'u 執疵 as King of Yüeh-chang 越章.⁴⁶

adjectif

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   With sugar and no condensed milk added.

   Better try their kopi-o tarik. Our version nowadays taste like cough medicine. LOL!

Formes

pluriel

Os, O's, Oes