the 21st letter of the English alphabet
a written character or design denoting this letter
the sound represented by this letter, one of the English vowels
an item designated as U, esp the 21st in a series
| 单词 | U |
| 释义 | U1 or unoun (pl U's Us or u's)the 21st letter of the English alphabet a written character or design denoting this letter the sound represented by this letter, one of the English vowels an item designated as U, esp the 21st in a series U2abbrUnionist United university Uruguay (international vehicle registration) U3abbrthe chemical symbol for uranium U4nounin Britain, a classification of cinema films suitable for all age groups (used before a noun) of or being such a film [short for universal1] U5adjchiefly Brit, informal said of an accent, or language or behaviour, etc: characteristic of the upper classes short for upper-class. The terms U and non-U were invented by Prof. Alan Ross in 1954, in an article entitled Linguistic class indicators in present-day English, published in a Finnish philological journal; they were popularized by Nancy Mitford d.1973, English writer and editor, who quoted them in a popular magazine in 1955 and later published a condensed version of Prof. Ross's article |
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