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
Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Suitable only for those aged sixteen or (later) eighteen years and over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
Qualifier: UK film certificate
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adj
Obscene; adult; pornographic; XXX.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Abbreviation of extreme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, informal
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adj
Alternative letter-case form of X (“intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents)”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, not-comparable
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character
The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: letter, uppercase
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character
Forming gender-neutral or otherwise more inclusive versions of words, especially Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: letter, lowercase
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conj
Used between the names of two characters to denote a ship, particularly in anime, manga, and video games.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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conj
Used in place of and in artist collaborations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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name
A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, politics
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name
An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: social media
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name
Christ
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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name
The X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in Unix-like systems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Unix
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: X11
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noun
Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The spot behind the goal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lacrosse, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Ecstasy, a particular street drug.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Cross, crossing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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num
An unknown quantity or unknown value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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num
An unknown or unspecified number of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, sometimes
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verb
Alternative spelling of ex (“to delete; to cross out”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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adjective satellite
being one more than nine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ten, 10
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noun
street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, hug drug
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Broader terms: methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA
noun
the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ex
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Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ten, 10, tenner, decade
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Broader terms: large integer
History
Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.
From Christ by abbreviation, orthographic borrowing from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, letter chi), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”).
Named after its predecessor, the W Window System; X follows W in the Latin alphabet.
Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy.
From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire.
Across languages
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
