"CH" meaning in English

See CH in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CH
  1. (Canada, ice hockey) Short for Montreal Canadiens. Tags: Canada, abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Montreal Canadiens
    Sense id: en-CH-en-name-HxfjTNjb Categories (other): Canadian English, Ice hockey, English entries with incorrect language header, English words spelled without vowels, Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 10 2 26 8 5 24 1 1 Disambiguation of English words spelled without vowels: 27 9 5 20 9 5 19 4 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 12 entries: 18 8 2 17 4 2 17 3 2 11 1 1 2 2 6 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 8 1 19 3 1 19 1 1 12 0 0 3 1 7 8 Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
  2. Abbreviation of Chandigarh: a union territory of India. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Chandigarh (extra: a union territory of India) Categories (place): Places in India
    Sense id: en-CH-en-name-aMa71iso Categories (other): Abbreviations of states and union territories of India, Chandigarh, India, States and union territories of India, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 10 2 26 8 5 24 1 1

Noun

Forms: CHs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} CH (countable and uncountable, plural CHs)
  1. (Commonwealth, postnominal) Initialism of companion of honour. Tags: Commonwealth, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, postpositional, uncountable Alternative form of: companion of honour
    Sense id: en-CH-en-noun-m91RtPdp Categories (other): Commonwealth English
  2. (nautical) Abbreviation of heavy cruiser. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: heavy cruiser
    Sense id: en-CH-en-noun-ZQ6-j3dl Categories (other): Nautical, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 10 2 26 8 5 24 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 12 entries: 18 8 2 17 4 2 17 3 2 11 1 1 2 2 6 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 8 1 19 3 1 19 1 1 12 0 0 3 1 7 8 Topics: nautical, transport
  3. (US, military, aviation) Initialism of cargo helicopter. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: cargo helicopter
  4. (set theory) Initialism of continuum hypothesis. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: continuum hypothesis
    Sense id: en-CH-en-noun-Z42f5mzg Categories (other): Set theory, Infinity Disambiguation of Infinity: 6 9 10 14 6 26 18 4 7 Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory
  5. (medicine) Initialism of cluster headache. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: cluster headache
    Sense id: en-CH-en-noun-cGhAJpE8 Categories (other): Medicine, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 10 2 26 8 5 24 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 12 entries: 18 8 2 17 4 2 17 3 2 11 1 1 2 2 6 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 8 1 19 3 1 19 1 1 12 0 0 3 1 7 8 Topics: medicine, sciences
  6. Initialism of central heating. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: central heating
    Sense id: en-CH-en-noun-3QnbVbFG
  7. Initialism of Cretan Hieroglyphic. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Cretan Hieroglyphic
    Sense id: en-CH-en-noun-VJQbUFif

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.