J Definition

jā
noun
The tenth letter of the English alphabet: formerly a variant of I, i, in the 17th cent. it became established as a consonant only, as in Julius, originally spelled Iulius.
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Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the j of joy.
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A type or impression for j or J.
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The tenth in a sequence or group.
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An object shaped like J.
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Synonyms:
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abbreviation
Jack.
American Heritage
January.
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Joule.
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Japanese.
American Heritage
Judge.
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adjective
Of j or J.
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Tenth in a sequence or group.
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Shaped like J.
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letter

The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

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The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

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symbol

(computing) The ASCII control character line feed in caret notation.

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Other Word Forms of J

Noun

Singular:
j
Plural:
Js.

Origin of J

  • Sense 5, from J(ehovah)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

J Sentence Examples

  • The whole structure is innervated oho+ like the tentacles, from1 j' the ex-umbral nerve-ring.

  • The tradition of the earliest document J ascribes the worship of Yahweh to much earlier times, in fact to the dawn of human life.

  • As we have already indicated, the document J assumes that Yahweh was worshipped by the Hebrew race from the first.

  • The documents underlying the Pentateuch and book of Joshua, represented by the ciphers J, E, D and P, are assumed to have been drawn up in the chronological order in which those ciphers are here set down, and the period of their composition extends from the 9th century B.C., in which the earlier portions of J were written, to the 5th century B.C., in which P finally took shape.

  • The existence of " high places " is presupposed in those two ancient codes and is also presumed in the narratives of the documents E and J which contain them.

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