c

Letter (1)

1. (letter, lowercase) The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

Numeral (1)

1. (lowercase) The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

Noun (1)

c (plural cs or c's)

1. The middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.

Letter (2) capitalized: C

1. (letter, uppercase) The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
   • Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

Numeral (2) capitalized: C

1. (uppercase) The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

Symbol capitalized: C

C

1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.

Noun (2) capitalized: C

C (plural Cs)

1. (US, slang) One hundred dollars; a c-note.
   • I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227
   • Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Leon (Bill Duke)
2. The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
3. An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
   • Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive director of the Association of American Geographers and a leading expert in political and human...2021 June 18, Sam Roberts, “Saul B. Cohen, Who Helped Raise CUNY Standards, Dies at 95”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021
4. (Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
5. (slang) Cocaine.
   • Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945
6. (slang, vulgar) Cunt.
   • He turned me on my stomach & slowly gently put his cock in my ass. I was so happy! But I was having a hard time completely relaxing & so he withdrew & went in my C.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
7. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of consonant.
   • The standard syllable structure of Lang Belta is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant), but there are also syllables without one or both of these consonants. Therefore, other possible structures are: initial V, initial CV, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC...2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog
8. (UK, abbreviation) Abbreviation of Conservative.
9. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of century.
   • Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement.
   • Contains an interesting collection of English and European paintings from the 14th to 20th-Cs, in particular the Lycett Green collection of old masters.1979, The Automobile Association, AA Town Plans, London: Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd., →ISBN, page 222, column 1
10. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of center.

Proper noun capitalized: C

C

1. A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
   • The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took...1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
2. (UK) Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
3. (symbol) Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE.
   • Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn.2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business

Noun (3) capitalized: C

C

1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of costa.

Verb capitalized: C

C

1. (Internet, abbreviation) Abbreviation of see.
   • Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80

Adjective capitalized: C

Singapore/siː(˦)/

C (not comparable)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) With sugar and evaporated milk added.