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long o

long o noun: the vowel sound /əʊ/, as in the words "cone" and "note". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in coning versus conning).

Noun

long o (plural long o's)

  1. The vowel sound /əʊ/, as in the words "cone" and "note". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in coning versus conning).
    Antonyms:
    short o

Antonyms of long o

Forms of long o

plurallong o's

Questions about long o

What does long o mean?
Long o means the vowel sound /əʊ/, as in the words "cone" and "note". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in coning versus conning).
What part of speech is long o?
Long o is a noun.
What is the plural of long o?
The plural of long o is long o's.

Words near long o in the dictionary

  1. long mode
  2. long night moon
  3. long night moons
  4. long nine
  5. long nineteenth century
  6. long o
  7. long odds
  8. long off
  9. long offs
  10. long on
  11. long ons

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