co
/kəʊ/US/koʊ/
co is the clipping of company.
Pronoun
co (third-person singular, gender-neutral, reflexive coself)
- Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: A Documentary Study of Twin Oaks Community
- At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context and different terms in a Euro-American cultural context than in other racial and ethnic contexts.1996, Beemyn, Brett; Elianon, Mickey, Queer studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology, page 74
- Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
Meaning of company
Noun
company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)
- A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.
- a company of knights
- A group of performing artists who put on shows together.
- a company of actors
- The crew of a ship.
- a ship's company
- A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- the boys in Company C
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- It took six companies to put out the fire.
- An intelligence service.
- As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
Proper noun capitalized: CO
CO
- Abbreviation of Colorado: a state of the United States.
Noun (1) capitalized: CO
CO
- Abbreviation of county.
- Initialism of commanding officer.
- Initialism of commissioned officer.
- Initialism of corrections officer or initialism of correctional officer.
- Initialism of conscientious objector.
- Initialism of clothing optional.
- Initialism of common-offset method.
- Abbreviation of cutoff.
Verb capitalized: CO
CO
- Abbreviation of cast on.
Noun (2) capitalized: Co
Co (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of company, alternative form of Co..
- Abbreviation of county, alternative form of Co..
- Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border.2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in The Irish Times, page 4
- Abbreviation of cotton.
Forms of co
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cos |
| alternative form | co. |
| alternative form | Co |
| alternative form | Co. |
| alternative form | co |
| Pronoun | |
| reflexive | coself |
Origin of co
Clipping of company.
Coined by feminist writer Mary Orovan in 1970; in common usage in intentional communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.
Words formed from co
Phrases with co
Words that rhyme with co
Questions about co
- What does co mean?
- Co means gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- What is co the clipping of?
- Co is the clipping of company.
- What part of speech is co?
- Co can be a pronoun, a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce co?
- Co is pronounced /kəʊ/ (UK).
Words near co in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: co (page history and authors); CO (page history and authors); Co (page history and authors); company (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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