MO Definition

mō
abbreviation
Missouri.
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Money order.
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Medical Officer.
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Month.
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Monday.
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suffix
Used after numerals to indicate the number of leaves that results from folding a sheet of paper.
Twelvemo.
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noun

Moment.

Webster's New World

A homosexual.

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Alternative spelling of moe.
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Synonyms:
symbol
Molybdenum.
Webster's New World
affix
A book, pamphlet, etc. having (a specified number of) leaves as a result of the folding of a sheet of paper a given number of times.
12mo, duodecimo, or twelvemo.
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adverb

(now dialectal) Further, longer.

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adjective

(archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to subtances)

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contraction

(slang) Contraction of more.

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Origin of MO

  • From Middle English, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *mÉ™-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

    From Wiktionary

  • As moe, with an acute accent added as a pronunciatory aid; compare saké.

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  • Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

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  • Abbreviation of month.

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  • Clipping of moment.

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  • From (duodeci)mo

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

MO Sentence Examples

  • This isn't their MO.

  • The basic oxides must have the general formula MO.

  • When the seat of the Fatimite Empire was removed to Egypt, the Zirites, a house of the Sanhaja Berbers, ruled as their lieutenants at Mandia, and about 1050 Mo`izz the Zirite, in connexion with a religious movement against the Shiites, transferred his very nominal allegiance to the Abbasid caliphs.

  • Other mosques of some note are those of Ibn Yusef, El Mansur and El Mo`izz; the chapel of Sidi Bel Abbas, in the extreme north of the city, possesses property of great value, and serves as an almshouse and asylum.

  • The Inter-Andine or plateau region lies in and between the two great mountain chains which cross the greater part of the republic Mo between and almost parallel r with the 78th and 79th meridians.

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