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ou

/ˈəʊ.uː/US/oʊ/

ou noun: a probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.

Noun (1)

ou (plural ous)

  1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.

Noun (2)

ou (plural ous or ouens)

  1. (South Africa, colloquial) A fellow, guy, bloke.
    • Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling
      We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”
    • I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27

Proper noun capitalized: OU

OU

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Open University.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Ohio University.
    Synonyms:
    Ohio
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of University of Oklahoma.

ou meaning in Hindi

ou in Hindi

ओयू

Examples of ou in a sentence

  • They share the function of putting forth a claim about virtùous political conduct.
  • Pʻu-kʻou has a modern chemical fertilizer plant and a tractor factory.
  • Often it has worked ou into grossest inhumanity and vilest bolshevism.

All 12 example sentences with ou

Synonyms of ou

Forms of ou

pluralous
pluralouens

Plural of ou: ous

Origin of ou

From Hawaiian ʻōʻū.

From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”).

Questions about ou

What does ou mean?
Ou means a probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
What is ou in Hindi?
Ou in Hindi is ओयू. See Ou meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ou?
Ou can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ou?
Ou is pronounced /ˈəʊ.uː/ (UK).
What is the plural of ou?
The plural of ou is ous.

Words near ou in the dictionary

  1. Otwock
  2. OTWs
  3. otzovism
  4. otzovist
  5. otzovists
  6. ou
  7. Ou-tchang
  8. ou-tenga
  9. ouabagenin
  10. ouabain
  11. ouabains

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ou (page history and authors); OU (page history and authors); ou (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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