Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Abbreviation of super-high-output.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
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adv
Pronunciation spelling of sure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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adv
Pronunciation spelling of so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, childish, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
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name
Alternative form of Shö, a Kuki-Chin language/dialect group
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the Chinese sheng.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase Ϸ, lowercase ϸ.
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History
Borrowed from Japanese 笙 (shō).
Of modern scholarly coinage. From its Bactrian pronunciation /ʃ/, and the final omricon (ο) found at the end of almost all Bactrian words.
Across languages
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