Definitions for NUS

NUS nu

Spelling: [noo, nyoo]
IPA: /nu, nyu/

Nus is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in NUS (nsu).

Definitions for NUS

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.

Origin of NUS

1885-90; Greek nû Semitic; cf. nun2

Examples for NUS

And G. Leonard Baker served as an adviser to the nus Investment Committee.

On les trouve abandonnés à sa porte, nus comme des enfans nouveaunés, faute de membrane cutanée, ou même papyracée.

He was king of the Ethiopians, and son of Titho´nus and Aurora.

Didn't I nus yoh fum de time yoh was a teenchy little baby, an' wasn't ole Mis' and yoah paw sas'fied wid me?

Alumnus, al-um′nus, n. one educated at a college is called an alumnus of it:—pl.

He had been exposed to the hot sun, and had thus become terribly overheated, when he came to the river Cyd´nus.

Quirinus, kwi-rī′nus, n. an Italic divinity identified with the deified Romulus.

She chose for her husband Titho´nus, the son of Laom´edon, king of Troy.

Si' nus ve no' sus, an enlargement of the termination of the large veins.

Corvi´nus (Mathias), the Hungarian, was a scare-name to the Turks.

Word Value for NUS
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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