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uk

/juːˈkeɪ/

Proper noun (1) capitalized: UK

UK or the UK

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of United Kingdom
    • Delivered anywhere in UK before X-mas Day!1990 December 11, Lucretia, “Last-Minute X-mas Blues?”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16
    • The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday.2021 October 14, Jack Guy, “UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US”, in CNN
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of University of Kentucky
    Synonyms:
    UKY, Kentucky

Proper noun (2) capitalized: UK

UK

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Uttarakhand.

Synonyms of uk

Forms of uk

alternative formU.K.

Words formed from uk

Phrases with uk

Words that rhyme with uk

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Questions about uk

What part of speech is uk?
Uk is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce uk?
Uk is pronounced /juːˈkeɪ/.

Words near uk in the dictionary

  1. Ujjayini
  2. Ujjwal
  3. UJN
  4. UJT
  5. UJTs
  6. uk
  7. UK dubstep
  8. UK funky
  9. UK garage
  10. UK hardcore
  11. UK Independence Party

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uk (page history and authors); UK (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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