O'
Multiple Entries:O' o'
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
O'/əʊ/
▶prefix in Irish patronymic names such as O'Neill.
– origin C18: from Ir. ó, ua ‘descendant’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
o'/ə/
▶preposition short for of, used to represent an informal pronunciation.
'O'' also found in these Oxford entries:
ABO system
- acetyl
- acushla
- acyl
- alannah
- alumina
- amide
- amosite
- arrange
- benzoyl
- billy-o
- birdwing
- blotto
- bobolink
- boffo
- Bon
- bundobust
- carbonyl
- cat
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- c/o
- condensation
- contango
- counter
- c.w.o.
- dichromate
- dumbo
- elevenses
- -es
- -es
- five o'clock shadow
- f.o.b.
- f.o.r.
- four o'clock plant
- futhark
- Geechee
- half
- Hare Krishna
- hydrogen peroxide
- hydroxonium ion
- -i
- ignis fatuus
- I/O
- jack-o'-lantern
- jello
- ketone
- lawrencium
- Linotype
- liquor
- lorazepam
