C

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  • noun. The third letter of the modern English alphabet.
  • noun. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter c.
  • noun. The third in a series.
  • noun. Something shaped like the letter C.
  • noun. The third best or third highest in quality or rank.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The first tone in the scale of C major or the third tone in the relative minor scale.
  • noun. A key or scale in which the tone of C is the tonic.
  • noun. A written or printed note representing this tone.
  • noun. A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.
  • abbreviation. candle
  • abbreviation. carat
  • abbreviation. charm quark
  • abbreviation. circumference
  • abbreviation. constant
  • abbreviation. cubic
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An abbreviation of Companion of the Bath. See bath.
  • noun. An abbreviation of County Commissioner and of County Court.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Civil Engineer.
  • noun. An abbreviation of chief accountant, of controller of accounts, and in Great Britain of chartered accountant.
  • noun. An abbreviation
  • noun. of commissary-general, and
  • noun. of consul-general.
  • noun. An abbreviation
  • noun. of court-house, very common in the southern United States, and as far north as southern Pennsylvania, as a part of town-names: as, Spottsylvania C. H.; and
  • noun. of custom-house.
  • An abbreviation of chief justice.
  • noun. An abbreviation of the Latin (New Latin) ChirurgiƦ Magister, Master in Surgery.
  • noun. An abbreviation of care of, common in addressing letters, etc. Often written c/o
  • The third letter and second consonant in the English, as in general in the other alphabets derived from the Phenician.
  • As a numeral, in the Roman system, C stands for 100, and is repeated up to CCCC, 400 (followed by D, 500).
  • As a symbol:
  • As an abbreviation, c. or C. stands, in dental formulas of zoƶlogy (c.), for canine tooth; in United States money (c.), for cent; in thermometer-readings (c.), for centigrade; in French money (c.), for centime; in references (c.), for chapter (or Latin capitulum); in dates, before the number (c.), for Latin circa, about: in meteorology (c.), for cirrus; in a ship's log-book (c.), for cloudy; and in measures of volume (c.), for cubic.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Common Pleas and of Court of Probate.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Court of Session;
  • noun. Clerk of the Signet;
  • noun. Custos Sigilli, Keeper of the Seal;
  • noun. con sordini (which see).
  • undefined
  • An abbreviation of Court and [lowercase] of centimeter.
  • An abbreviation of Court of Appeal;
  • of Court of Arches;
  • of Chancery Appeals;
  • of commercial agent;
  • of Confederate army;
  • of county alderman.
  • An abbreviation of the French compte courante (account current);
  • of cubic centimeter.
  • An abbreviation of Cape Breton;
  • of Chief Baron (of the Exchequer) (see baron, 2);
  • cross-reference
    c clef  middle c  white c  
    Equivalent
    cardinal  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab  Ac  Ag  Agee  Aimee  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    P & L  Se  a'  b  d