u
Short definition from Wiktionary
Character
- The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
- The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
- Something shaped like the letter U: A U-turn ('turned a U in the road')
- Something shaped like the letter U: A double upright cordon espalier (also double U, triple U).
Noun
- The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
- A thing in the shape of the letter U
- A U-turn.
- Abbreviation of university.
- Abbreviation of Sunday.
- A film with the film classification U (“universal”).
- An honorific to a Burmese man
Pronoun
- Abbreviation of you.
Adjective
- Abbreviation of underwater.
- Abbreviation of upper class (“characteristic of the upper classes, particularly in the use of language”).
- Abbreviation of united.
- Abbreviation of upper.
- Usually in parentheses: abbreviation of unclassified.
- Abbreviation of universal (“suitable for all ages”), in a film certificate.
Preposition
Proper noun
- An Austroasiatic language spoken in China.
- Alternative form of Ü (“Tibetan language”).
Symbol
- Chemical symbol for uranium.
- Rack unit, the unit of length defined as 1.75 inches.
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