con

Multiple Entries:
  con    Con    com-    con-  

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con1 informal

▶verb (cons, conning, conned) deceive (someone) into doing or believing something by lying to them. ▶noun a deception of this kind.

– origin C19 (orig. US): abbrev. of confidence, as in confidence trick.

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con2

▶noun (usu. in phr. pros and cons) a disadvantage of or argument against something.

– origin C16: from L. contra ‘against’.

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con3

▶noun informal a convict.

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con4 (US also conn) Nautical

▶verb (cons, conning, conned) direct the steering of (a ship). ▶noun (the con) the action or post of conning a ship.

– origin C17: appar. a weakened form of obs. cond ‘conduct, guide’, from OFr. conduire.

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con5

▶verb (cons, conning, conned) archaic study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing).

– origin ME cunne, conne, con, vars of can1.

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Con

▶abbreviation Brit.

• 1 Conservative (as a political affiliation).

• 2 constable (as part of a police officer's title).

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com- /kɒm/ (also co-, col-, con-, or cor-)

▶prefix with; together; jointly; altogether: combine.

– origin from L. cum ‘with’.

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con-/kɒn/

▶prefix variant spelling of com-. assimilated before c, d, f, g, j, n, q, s, t, v, and sometimes before vowels (as in concord, condescend, confide, etc.).