Thesaurus: o
Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.
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Definitions
- Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.
- n. The letter O, or its sound.
- n. Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval.
- n. A cipher; zero.
- a. One.
- interj. An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc.
- n. a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
- n. the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet
- n. the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens
- A prefix to Irish family names, which signifies grandson ordescendant of, and is a character of dignity; as, O'Neil, O'Carrol.