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vo

vo is the obsolete form of voe.

Meaning of voe

Noun

voe (plural voes)

  1. (UK) A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.
    • The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Pirate. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 142

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: VO

VO

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Royal Victorian Order.

Noun (1) capitalized: VO

VO (plural VOs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of voiceover.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of visiting order.
    • Visiting a busy prison like Holloway can at first be intimidating to the uninitiated, especially as everyone else seems familiar with the procedure. A convicted prisoner must send a VO to anyone wishing to visit her.1998, Angela Devlin, Invisible Women: What's Wrong With Women's Prisons?, page 82
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of video operator.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of vegetable oil.

Noun (2) capitalized: Vo

Vo (plural Vos)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of vocals (of a rock band).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Vo

Vo (plural Vos)

  1. A surname.

Forms of vo

Noun
pluralVOs
pluralVos
Proper noun
pluralVos

Origin of vo

Borrowed from Vietnamese Võ.

Questions about vo

What does vo mean?
Vo means a surname.
What is vo the obsolete form of?
Vo is the obsolete form of voe.
What part of speech is vo?
Vo can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near vo in the dictionary

  1. VNSA
  2. VNSAs
  3. vnto
  4. VNTR
  5. VNTRs
  6. vo
  7. vo-ag
  8. vo-ags
  9. vo-tech
  10. vo-techs
  11. VOA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vo (page history and authors); VO (page history and authors); Vo (page history and authors); voe (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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