English Explanatory Dictionary

ao

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Initialism of amongst/among/and others.
noun
  1. grue ("blue or green", considered as one color)
name
  1. Initialism of Arctic oscillation.
  2. Abbreviation of Australian Open, a major tennis tournament, part of the Grand Slam.
  3. Initialism of Anarchy Online.
  4. Initialism of Annoying Orange, an Internet-based cartoon series.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of autonomous oblast.
  2. Abbreviation of autonomous okrug.
  3. Abbreviation of auxiliary oiler.
  4. Initialism of atomic orbital.
  5. Abbreviation of area of operations.
  6. Abbreviation of alpha and omega.
adj
  1. Initialism of adults only.
noun
  1. A tribe living primarily in the state of Nagaland in India.
name
  1. Their language, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family.
name
  1. A river in Zhejiang, China.
  2. A river in Fujian, China.
name
  1. A surname from Chinese.
name
  1. A surname from Chinese.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of aorta.
symbol
  1. An orthographic ⟨o⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the GOAT vowel, as in the word "alone".

Pronunciation

/eɪ ˈəʊ/ ou

Word forms

ao AOs

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 青(あお) (ao).

Synonyms

Aojiang Aokiang Ao-chiang ō

Related words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Ao terms njo ⁠

Derived words

Todd-AO AAo DAo
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