"bio" meaning in English

See bio in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈbaɪəʊ/ [UK], /ˈbaɪoʊ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bio.wav
Rhymes: -aɪəʊ Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} bio (not comparable)
  1. (informal) biological. Tags: informal, not-comparable Derived forms: bio box, bio break, bio energy, bio female, bio male, bio queen, non-bio
    Sense id: en-bio-en-adj-L8cT7aIy Categories (other): English terms with collocations

Noun

IPA: /ˈbaɪəʊ/ [UK], /ˈbaɪoʊ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bio.wav Forms: bios [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪəʊ Head templates: {{en-noun}} bio (plural bios)
  1. Clipping of biography. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Alternative form of: biography
    Sense id: en-bio-en-noun-mloL4ymg
  2. A biographical sketch. Translations (biographical sketch): biogram [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-bio-en-noun-Mng8Rl4x Disambiguation of 'biographical sketch': 8 84 4 4
  3. (informal) Clipping of biology. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Alternative form of: biology
    Sense id: en-bio-en-noun--oUVgyB1
  4. (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”). Tags: South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Alternative form of: bioscope (extra: cinema)
    Sense id: en-bio-en-noun-8kF13iYq Categories (other): South African English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 20 10 16 30 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 13 9 10 54 Disambiguation of Pages with 12 entries: 2 2 11 8 5 6 26 0 11 5 2 2 8 5 0 2 3 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 15 7 4 5 31 0 13 4 1 1 6 4 0 1 2 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 13 25 11 12 39

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 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). 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.