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isu

isu noun: an individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.

Noun

isu (plural isu)

  1. An individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
    Synonyms:
    isu-seki

Proper noun (1) capitalized: ISU

ISU

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Immigration Service Union.
  2. (abbreviation, dated, initialism, rare) Initialism of International System of Units.
  3. (Philippines, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Isabela State University.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Illinois State University.
    Synonyms:
    Illinois State
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Indiana State University.
    Synonyms:
    Indiana State
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Iowa State University.
    Synonyms:
    Iowa State
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Indigenous Students' Union.
    • The University of Alberta’s Indigenous Students’ Union (ISU) is offering free Dene Kǝdǝ́ language lessons from March 7 to June 27. […] Goodrunning had previously put on an Indigenous language bingo night with the help of former ISU President Malijha Moyan.2025 March 26, Leah Hennig, “ISU offering free Dene Kǝdǝ́ language lessons”, in The Gateway

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Isu

Isu

  1. A Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
    • It is our sincere hope that the Isu Language Committee and eventually the whole Isu community may revise and approve this proposal, and find the resulting writing system both useful and easy to learn.2014, Stephen C. Anderson, ISU ORTHOGRAPHY GUIDE, SIL, page iii

Synonyms of isu

Forms of isu

pluralisu

Origin of isu

Borrowed from Japanese 椅子.

Questions about isu

What does isu mean?
Isu means an individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
What part of speech is isu?
Isu can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of isu?
The plural of isu is isu.

Words near isu in the dictionary

  1. Istro-Romanians
  2. Istro-Venetian
  3. ists
  4. Istvaeones
  5. Istvaeonic
  6. isu
  7. Isuan
  8. Isubu
  9. Isuikwato
  10. isukuti
  11. Isulan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: isu (page history and authors); ISU (page history and authors); Isu (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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