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Q's

Variant of q

or Q

noun pl. Q's, q's

  1. the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet: via Latin from the early Greek koppa, a borrowing from the Phoenician
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English words, where it is typically followed by u (except in words borrowed from Arabic), the (kw) of queen or (k) of conquer
  3. a type or impression for q or Q
  4. the seventeenth in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of q or Q
  2. seventeenth in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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