CU

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cu"

Translingual

Symbol

CU

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Cuba.
    Synonym: CUB (alpha-3)

English

Noun

CU (plural CUs)

  1. Initialism of corporate university.
  2. Initialism of credit union.
  3. Initialism of control unit.
  4. (film) Initialism of close-up.

Proper noun

CU

  2. Initialism of Christian Union (bodies of Christian students in schools, colleges, and universities).
  4. Initialism of Chittagong University (Bangladesh).
  6. Initialism of Chulalongkorn University (Thailand).
  8. Initialism of University of Colorado (United States of America).
    Coordinate terms: CSU, Colorado State (not to be confused)

Adjective

CU (not comparable)

  1. cubic in a variety of English customary units (examples: cubic inch, cubic foot).

Phrase

CU

  1. (philately) Initialism of commercially used (used in stamp descriptions).
  2. (Internet slang, text messaging) Phonetic abbreviation of see you.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From ChristenUnie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seːˈy/

Proper noun

CU f

  1. (rare) ChristianUnion, a conservative Christian social political party in the Netherlands

Usage notes

This abbreviation mainly occurs as a label in graphs and is seldom used in running text.

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