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u

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Character

  1. The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
  2. The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
  3. Something shaped like the letter U: A U-turn ('turned a U in the road')
  4. Something shaped like the letter U: A double upright cordon espalier (also double U, triple U).

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
  2. A thing in the shape of the letter U
  3. A U-turn.
  4. Abbreviation of university.
  5. Abbreviation of Sunday.
  6. A film with the film classification U (“universal”).
  7. An honorific to a Burmese man

Pronoun

  1. Abbreviation of you.

Adjective

  1. Abbreviation of underwater.
  2. Abbreviation of upper class (“characteristic of the upper classes, particularly in the use of language”).
  3. Abbreviation of united.
  4. Abbreviation of upper.
  5. Usually in parentheses: abbreviation of unclassified.
  6. Abbreviation of universal (“suitable for all ages”), in a film certificate.

Preposition

  1. Abbreviation of under.
  2. Abbreviation of up.
  3. Abbreviation of under, prefix under-.

Proper noun

  1. An Austroasiatic language spoken in China.
  2. Alternative form of Ü (“Tibetan language”).

Symbol

  1. Chemical symbol for uranium.
  2. Rack unit, the unit of length defined as 1.75 inches.

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