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Optimus

Optimus proper noun: a pet name for a device, such as a car, computer, or robot.

Proper noun

Optimus (plural Optimuses)

  1. A pet name for a device, such as a car, computer, or robot.

Forms of Optimus

pluralOptimuses

Origin of Optimus

From Latin optimus; For optimum, optimate, optimal. Popularized by the fictional robot character Optimus Prime in the 1980s.

Questions about Optimus

What does Optimus mean?
Optimus means a pet name for a device, such as a car, computer, or robot.
What part of speech is Optimus?
Optimus is a proper noun.

Words near Optimus in the dictionary

  1. optimizes out
  2. optimizing
  3. optimizing out
  4. optimum
  5. optimums
  6. Optimus
  7. optineurin
  8. opting
  9. opting in
  10. opting out
  11. option

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