geo

English Online Dictionary. What means geo‎? What does geo mean?

Translingual

Symbol

geo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Georgian.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Norn [Term?], from Old Norse gjá.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡjəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

geo (plural geos)

1. (Shetland, Orkney, Caithness) An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff.

See also

• chine

See also

• neo-geo

Anagrams

• EOG, GOE, Goe, ego, ego-, goe

Limburgish

Etymology 1

Clipping of geodriehook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʝeː˦joː˧]

Noun

geo m

1. (mathematics, slang) set square

Etymology 2

Clipping of geografie.

Alternative forms

• geó

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʝeː˦joː˨]

Noun

geo f

1. geography
2. (rare) geology

Etymology 3

Clipping of geótj. Possibly from the verb ótte (“to be squinting”), but this is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʝəʔˈo˦]

Adjective

geo (comparative geówer, superlative geóws, predicative superlative 't geóws)

1. (obsolete) strange

Middle English

Pronoun

geo

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of ye (“you”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• ġiō, iū

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *ju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juː/

Adverb

ġeō

1. at some former time: once, before
2. already

Derived terms

• ġeōdagas

Spanish

Noun

geo m or f by sense (plural geos)

1. a member of the Grupo Especial de Operaciones

Further reading

• “geo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10