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Meaning of "sou" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SOU

From French, from Old French sol, from Latin: solidus.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SOU

sou  [suː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOU

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sou is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOU MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sou

Sou or SOU may refer to: ▪ Sou, a type of food pastry ▪ Sou, a film by Theodore Ushev for Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction ▪ Solidus, French slang for a coin of little value ▪ Penny, colloquially called a sou in Quebec ▪ Sou, a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Su ▪ Special Operations Unit ▪ Southampton Airport ▪ Southampton Central ▪ Southern Oregon University ▪ Southern Railway ▪ Statens offentliga utredningar, an official series of reports of committees appointed by the Swedish Government ▪ Sound of Urchin, an eclectic alternative rock band ▪ Southern Thai language, ISO 639-3 language code...

Definition of sou in the English dictionary

The definition of sou in the dictionary is a former French coin of low denomination. Other definition of sou is a very small amount of money.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOU

sotto voce
sou-sou
sou´wester
souari
soubise
soubise sauce
soubrette
soubrettish
soubriquet
soucar
souchong
Soudan
Soudanese
souffle
sough
sought
sought-after
souk
soukous
soul

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOU

after you
chou
Dou
fou
good on you
Guangzhou
Hangzhou
lou
not with you
ou
Ouagadougou
Poitou
see you
Suzhou
thank you
thank-you
thou
what have you
you
Zhou

Synonyms and antonyms of sou in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sou» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOU

Find out the translation of sou to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sou from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sou» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

SOU
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sou
570 millions of speakers

English

sou
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Sou
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدانق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Су
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sou
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফরাসী মুদ্রাবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sou
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sou
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

SOU
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sou
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sou
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரான்சு நாட்டு நாணய வகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सौ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

metelik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sou
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sou
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Су
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sou
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Sou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sou
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sou
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sou

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOU»

The term «sou» is very widely used and occupies the 5.338 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOU» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sou» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sou» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sou

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOU»

Discover the use of sou in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sou and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Well Spent Sou: Or, Bibles for the Poor Negroes
Yes, forty-nine, sir ; and this makes it perfectly plain how little a thing a sou is." " And had 1 come a few moments sooner, and told you this story at first, would you have eaten your three cakes or only one, and given two sous or mora to the poor  ...
‎1830
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"MAMA SOU"
Maria Griggs & Tyler Clapp. “No, he isn't,” Ioanna told her. “He and his band are touring in Yugoslavia. He just showed up with little Gabriel one day and left him here.” Maria had to bite her tongue to stop from yelling. This was a new low for ...
Maria Griggs & Tyler Clapp, 2014
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SOU 2007:058 + 059 Strategic freight nodes in the Swedish ...
Strategic freight nodes in the Swedish transport system - future perspectives This is an offprint of the summaries of three reports: (1 ) Port Strategy - strategic port nodes in the Swedish freight transport system (SOU 2007:58) , (2) A strategic ...
Sverige. Hamnstrategiutredningen, 2007
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SOU 2006:074 En ny lag om värdepappersmarknaden. Supplement
Sverige. Värdepappersmarknadsutredningen. Till statsrådet Sven-Erik Österberg Regeringen beslutade den 23 juni 2004 att tillkalla en särskild utredare med uppdrag att se över frågor som rör lagstiftningen för värdepappersinstitut, börser  ...
Sverige. Värdepappersmarknadsutredningen, 2006
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SOU 2004:107 Examining and determening accountability in ...
Sverige Utredningen om den kommunala revisionen. committee or an individual elected representative the reason must be stated in the audit report. The auditors can enter a qualification but still propose discharge. The auditors are elected by ...
Sverige Utredningen om den kommunala revisionen, 2004
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SOU 2004:019 The Long-Term Survey 2003/04 of the Swedish Economy
Sverige Finansdepartementet. In view of the upward pressure on local tax rates that is likely in the future, the design of the tax and equalisation systems needs to be reviewed to see if it is affecting local government incentives and consequently  ...
Sverige Finansdepartementet, 2004
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SOU 2004:130 Swedish Code of Corporate Governance Report of ...
Sverige Kodgruppen. the board to decide how far the company needs to go in this respect. In Castellum's opinion, the rule asks too much in the way of reports and audit reviews; the auditors' report is sufficient. Likewise the Fourth AP Fund ...
Sverige Kodgruppen, 2004
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Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean ...
Also important are the sou-sous that exist within the factory. The sou-sou organizations in the factory are for TT$10, $20, $50 and $100 per week. The captains are the people who run the sou-sou, and in Trinidad they are almost always women ...
Kevin Yelvington, 2010
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SOU 2007:015 Gender Equality in Public Services
Sweden, Sweden. Forskningsrådsutredningen. Methods and models The task of tackling and changing core activities will require efficient working models and methods if it is to succeed. Gender mainstreaming is a long-term development ...
Sweden, Sweden. Forskningsrådsutredningen, 2007
10
Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications
This book provides a complete and comprehensive overview of 3G UMTS charging services Evolving from offline billing of traditional telecommunications, charging for IP services in mobile networks is challenging; charging convergence is one ...
Yi-Bing Lin, Sok-Ian Sou, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOU»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sou is used in the context of the following news items.
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Class of 2015 Graduates From SOU
ASHLAND, Ore. -- Roughly 1000 students walked across the stage and into the next chapter of their lives at Southern Oregon University's Commencement ... «KDRV, Jun 15»
2
UO coach Mark Helfrich to speak at SOU commencement
Helfrich graduated from SOU with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1996. He played football for the Raiders from 1992-1995, earning NAIA Honorable Mention ... «Mail Tribune, May 15»
3
SOU's Kennedy accepts PSU job
ASHLAND — Lynn Kennedy has resigned from his post as the head women's basketball coach at Southern Oregon University to accept the same title at ... «Mail Tribune, Apr 15»
4
Mayor pulls plug on Sou Fujimoto's Taiwan Tower
News: Taichung mayor Lin Chia-lung has temporarily halted development of Sou Fujimoto's tree-inspired 300-metre tower for the city, which he says is ... «Dezeen, Jan 15»
5
Judge dismisses four of Ron Kramer's claims against SOU
Kramer filed a lawsuit against SOU and OUS in January 2013, nearly seven months after he was terminated as executive director of JPR, a position he'd held for ... «Ashland Daily Tidings, Jan 15»
6
Sou Fujimoto Chosen to Design Budapest's House of Hungarian …
Sou Fujimoto Architects has been announced as one of three practices chosen to design buildings for the Liget Budapest project, one of Europe's largest ... «ArchDaily, Dec 14»
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No. 8 SOU, No. 1 Carroll ready for QF showdown
Powerful and deceptively quick, the 5-foot-9, 210-pound Rinker rushed for 201 yards and two touchdowns in Carroll's win over SOU, and 142 yards and one TD ... «Ashland Daily Tidings, Nov 14»
8
SOU ditches swimming pool
Bob Pennell / The Medford Mail Tribune Jennie Watt swims in the Southern Oregon University. Watt has been swimming in the pool three times a week since ... «Bend Bulletin, Nov 14»
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Atanda's 16 kills powers SOU to first-round rout
Ozarks had no answer for SOU outside hitter Motade Atanda, whose 16 kills on 32 swings led the match. The Raiders, who were the Cascade Conference ... «Ashland Daily Tidings, Nov 14»
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SOU working on new free speech policies
SOU's paper, The Siskiyou, reports school administrators and students are in the final stages of drafting new guidelines. The changes stem from a video that ... «KOBI-TV NBC 5 / KOTI-TV NBC 2, Nov 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Sou [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sou>. Apr 2024 ».
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