u

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UK /ˈjuː/ US /a/

noun 7adj 6character 4prep 2name 2

Collocations

ADJ.

against, arial, close, deep, overall, rich, upper, wealthy

VERB + U

prefer, visit

U + NOUN

bakeries, class, companies, deficit, dialect, divider, dollar, economy

PREP.

across, from, from, in, in

Definitions

character

The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.

I prefer the u in Arial to the one in Times New Roman.

noun

The name of the Latin script letter U/u.

A thing in the shape of the letter U.

adj

Abbreviation of underwater.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element

uranium

noun — a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in

uracil

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

I prefer the u in Arial to the one in Times New Roman.

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Do a U across the divider and get on back here to the office.

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I may also note here that the U-demarcation is of two types: – (1) a certain U-feature has a different, non-U counterpart as non-U wealthy / U rich; (2) a certain feature is confined to U-speech and i

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To TAKE a bath is non-U against U to HAVE one’s bath.

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In a treatise that still causes ripples in English society, Mitford defined various terms as either U (upper class) or non-U.

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In 1992 Susan Lockhart was Captain of the England U16 Hockey Squad.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, u is marked as dated, UK, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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