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Meaning of SO

Pronunciation:  sow

WordNet Dictionary
  1. [n]  the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization
  4. [adv]  in order that; "he stooped down so he could pick up his hat"
  6. [adv]  (intensifier) to a very great extent or degree; "the idea is so obvious"; "never been so happy"; "I love you so"; "my head aches so!"
  9. [adv]  to a certain unspecified extent or degree; "I can only go so far with this student"; "can do only so much in a day"
  10. [adv]  in they same way; also; "I was offended and so was he"; "worked hard and so did she"

SO is a 2 letter word that starts with S.


 Synonyms: and so, and then, indeed, soh, sol, then, thus, thusly
 See Also: solfa syllable



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
       as implied, or as supposed to be known.
       reason; whith equal reason; -- used correlatively,
       following as, to denote comparison or resemblance;
       sometimes, also, following inasmuch as.
             As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so
             a prince ought to consider the condition he is in.
             beginning and progress of a rising world. --T.
             He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he
             lives in the family rather as a relation than
             dependent.                            --Addison.
       this or that condition or state; under these
       circumstances; in this way; -- with reflex reference to
       something just asserted or implied; used also with the
       verb to be, as a predicate.
             Use him [your tutor] with great respect yourself,
             It concerns every man, with the greatest
             seriousness, to inquire into those matters, whether
             they be so or not.                    --Tillotson.
             God makes him in his own image an intellectual
             creature, and so capable of dominion. --Locke.
             Here, then, exchange we mutually forgiveness; So may
             the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to
             thee, be all forgotten.               --Rowe.
       used to express assent.
             And when 't is writ, for my sake read it over, And
       as, so the work is done, is it?
    10. About the number, time, or quantity specified;
    Note: See the Note under {Ill}, adv.
       correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the
       equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative
       assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By
                                                   ciii. 15.
             Had woman been so strong as men.      --Shak.
             No country suffered so much as England. --Macaulay.
    {So far}, to that point or extent; in that particular. ``The
       song was moral, and so far was right.'' --Cowper.
    {So, so}, well, well. ``So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit
       you fast.'' --Dryden. Also, moderately or tolerably well;
       passably; as, he succeeded but so so. ``His leg is but so
       so.'' --Shak.
       result that.
  2. \So\, conj.
       Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose play upon
       the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by
       licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
  3. \So\, interj.
Computing Dictionary
  1. 1. shift out

    2. Significant Other, almost invariably written abbreviated and pronounced /S-O/ by hackers. Used to refer to one's primary relationship, especially a live-in to whom one is not married.

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  2. The country code for Somalia.

Easton Bible Dictionary

(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I.

 Definition:  a measure for grain; vail