а — meaning in English
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English meaning
- A character The first letter of the English alphabet.
- ah intj An exclamation showing relief, understanding, surprise, or realization, depending on tone.
- aha intj An exclamation of sudden understanding, discovery, or realization.
- and conj Used to join two words, phrases, or ideas that go together.
- but conjunction Used to introduce a contrast or exception to what was just said.
- eh intj Added to the end of a statement to invite agreement or a reaction, similar to "right?" or "isn't it?"
- ess noun The name of the letter S.
- huh interjection Used to show confusion, surprise, or to ask someone to repeat what they said.
- OH intj Used to express surprise, realization, understanding, or emotion.
Senses
а is used for these senses in English:
- ess Used to form female equivalents.
- a The name of the Latin script letter A / a.
- a The name of the Cyrillic script letter А / а.
- ah An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.
- aha An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
- and (now, colloquial, or, literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
- and Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes. [from 10th c.]
- but However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
A — full definition
- character The first letter of the English alphabet.
- article Used before a singular noun to mean "one" or "some", without pointing to a specific example.
- prep Per, each — used in expressions of rate or frequency.