ça — meaning in English

English meaning

• CA abbreviation California, in postal addresses and other abbreviated writing.
• hither adv To this place; here (mainly literary or old-fashioned), especially in the phrase "hither and thither" (in various directions).
• ID noun In Freudian psychology, the part of the mind driven by basic, unconscious instincts and desires.
• it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
• that det Used to point out a specific thing, person, or idea, especially one that is more distant (in space, time, or attention) than something called "this."
• thereof adv Of that; belonging to or coming from that thing already mentioned.

Senses

ça is used for these senses in English:

• CA (Scotland, Canada, AU, NZ, South Africa, accounting) Initialism of chartered accountant.
• hither (literary, or, archaic) To this place, to here.
• id (psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
• it The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
• it The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
• it The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
• it The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
• that (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. [from 9thc.]

CA — full definition

1. abbreviation California, in postal addresses and other abbreviated writing.
2. abbreviation Circa, meaning 'about' or 'approximately', placed before an uncertain date. Usually written ca. and pronounced as 'circa'.
3. abbreviation Chartered accountant, a qualified professional accountant in the UK, Ireland, India, Australia and several other countries.
4. abbreviation Calcium, in the chemical symbol Ca used in formulae and on nutrition labels.

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