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selo

selo noun: a village, in various Slavic regions.

Noun (1)

selo (plural selos or sela)

  1. A village, in various Slavic regions.
    • Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194

Noun (2) capitalized: SELO

SELO

  1. (abbreviation, molecular biology) Abbreviation of selenoprotein O.

Forms of selo

pluralselos
pluralsela

Origin of selo

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Phrases with selo

Questions about selo

What does selo mean?
Selo means a village, in various Slavic regions.
What part of speech is selo?
Selo is a noun.
What is the plural of selo?
The plural of selo is selos.

Words near selo in the dictionary

  1. Selmons
  2. SELN
  3. Selner
  4. Selners
  5. Selnica
  6. selo
  7. selodenoson
  8. selone
  9. selones
  10. Selonia
  11. Selonian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: selo (page history and authors); SELO (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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