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Ibo

Ibo is the alternative form of Igbo.

Meaning of Igbo

Proper noun (1)

Igbo (plural Igbos or Igbo)

  1. A member of a people of southeast Nigeria.

Proper noun (2)

Igbo

  1. The language spoken by the Igbo people and elsewhere in southern Nigeria.
    • Surprised by her switch to Igbo, he did not speak.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 180

Proper noun (1)

Ibo

  1. A barangay of Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: IBO

IBO

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of International Baccalaureate Organisation.

Forms of Ibo

pluralIbos

Origin of Ibo

Borrowed from Cebuano Ibo.

Questions about Ibo

What does Ibo mean?
Ibo means a barangay of Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines.
What is Ibo the alternative form of?
Ibo is the alternative form of Igbo.
What part of speech is Ibo?
Ibo is a proper noun.

Words near Ibo in the dictionary

  1. IBMs
  2. IBMX
  3. ibn
  4. IBNR
  5. IBNS
  6. Ibo
  7. ibodutant
  8. Ibofanga
  9. iboga
  10. ibogainalog
  11. ibogaine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ibo (page history and authors); IBO (page history and authors); Igbo (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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