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O. Henry

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Noun

1. o. henry, porter, william sydney porter

United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

O. Henry

see synonyms of o. henry
nounWord forms: plural o's, O's or Os
1. 
the 15th letter and fourth vowel of the modern English alphabet
2. 
any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in code, pot, cow, move, or form
3.  another name for nought
symbol for
1. chemistry
oxygen
2. 
a human blood type of the ABO group
universal donor
3. logic
a particular negative categorial proposition, such as some men are not married: often symbolized as SoP
Compare A, E, I2
abbreviation for
4. Australian slang
offence
exclamation
1.  a variant spelling of oh
2. 
an exclamation introducing an invocation, entreaty, wish, etc
O God!
O for the wings of a dove!
preposition
informal or archaic shortened form of of
a cup o' tea

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O. Henry

see synonyms of o. henry
nounWord forms: plural O's
1.  Popularly
the figure zero; nought
in printed matter, zero is usually differentiated from the letter O, as in this dictionary: “O” is the character used for the letter, “0” is the character used for the number
2. 
a blood type
see also ABO system
interjection
1. 
used in direct address
O Lord!
2. 
used to express surprise, wonder, fear, pain, etc.
now usually oh
3. 
used at the end of a line in some ballads
nounWord forms: plural O's
4. 
an instance of this exclamation
1. 
Ocean
2. 
October
3. 
Ohio
4.  Physics
ohm
5.  Linguistics
Old
OFr
6. 
Ontario
7.  Baseball
out(s)
8.  Pharmacy
pint
oxygen
nounWord forms: plural O's or o's
1. 
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek omega and omicron, both borrowed from the Phoenician
2. 
any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the vowel ( (oʊ) ; ō) ) of boat, ( (ɑ) ; ä) ) of hot, or ( (ɔ) ; ô) ) of wrong
3. 
a type or impression for o or O
4. 
the fifteenth in a sequence or group
5. 
an object shaped like O
adjective
6. 
of o or O
7. 
fifteenth in a sequence or group
8. 
shaped like O; circular or oval in shape
1. 
octavo
2. 
old
3. 
only
preposition
of1
will-o'-the-wisp

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

O. Henry

see synonyms of o. henry
See William Sydney Porter.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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