W's
Variant of w
or W
noun pl. W's, w's
- the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet: its sound was represented in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts by uu or u until about 900, then by Ƿ (wen) borrowed from the runic alphabet; in the 11th cent. a ligatured VV or vv was introduced by Norman scribes to replace the wen
- any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (w) of will
- a type or impression for w or W
- the twenty-third in a sequence or group
- an object shaped like
adjective
- of w or W
- twenty-third in a sequence or group
- shaped like
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