Definitions for NU

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NU nu

Spelling: [noo, nyoo]

IPA: /nu, nyu/

Nu is a 2 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 4 anagrams from letters in NU (nu).

Definitions for NU

noun

1. the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (Ν, ν).
2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.
3. U [oo] /u/ (Show IPA), (Thauin Nu) 1907–1995, Burmese political leader: prime minister 1948–56, 1957–58, 1960–62.
4. Egyptian Religion, Nun.
5. oldest of the ancient Egyptian gods, personifying the primordial ocean from which the world was formed; father of Ra, the sun god.

interjection

1. well? so? so what?

Origin of NU

1885-90; Greek nû Semitic; cf. nun²

Examples for NU

nuuanu (nu'u--nu) a valley back of Honolulu that leads to the "Pali."

Thus when Shu and Tefnut arose from the waters the eye of nu followed them.

Yeas; an' compared with what 'twas, 'tes almost so gude as nu.

Russ Chimes is determined to make fans bust out their best moves with his nu disco, indie-dance track, “Turn Me Out.”

"They all comes from th' nu'th'ard and west'ard o' th' post," said Ed.

Evra man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only nu it.

nu nu Yin, 30, left her accounting job in August to open Fantastic Inle Travel & Tours with her lover.

But nu, this is his job, and he is not here to tell us anything, only to seem to have said something.

All errors, including the use of mu for nu, are in the original.

The name is the same except for the "infixes" -nu- and -ke-.