"x" meaning in English

See x in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɛks/ [letter, name], /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/, /z/, /ʃ/ Audio: en-us-x.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɛks
  1. Alternative letter-case form of X (“intersex or non-binary, in passports and identification documents”) Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: X (extra: intersex or non-binary, in passports and identification documents)
    Sense id: en-x-en-adj-Gc2jtgwX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Character

IPA: /ɛks/ [letter, name], /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/, /z/, /ʃ/ Audio: en-us-x.ogg [US] Forms: X [uppercase], xs [plural], x's [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛks Head templates: {{head|en|letter|lower case||upper case|X|plural|xs|or|x's}} x (lower case, upper case X, plural xs or x's), {{en-letter}} x (lower case, upper case X, plural xs or x's)
  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script. Tags: letter, lowercase
    Sense id: en-x-en-character-mVB56vg9 Categories (other): Pages using lite templates
  2. Forming gender-neutral or otherwise more inclusive versions of words, especially Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a. Tags: letter, lowercase Related terms (gender): @
    Sense id: en-x-en-character-en:gender Categories (other): Pages using lite templates Disambiguation of 'gender': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: -x (alt: as in folx, punx)
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: moto-x, x-axis, x-band, x-height, x-intercept, xpost, x-risk, x-section, x unit, x-wing, x-word

Conjunction

IPA: /ɛks/ [letter, name], /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/, /z/, /ʃ/ Audio: en-us-x.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɛks Head templates: {{en-con}} x
  1. (fandom slang) Used between the names of two characters to denote a ship, particularly in anime, manga, and video games. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-x-en-conj-Em97vAtf Topics: lifestyle
  2. (music) Used in place of and in artist collaborations. Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-x-en-conj-LxyH8bVY Categories (other): Pages using lite templates Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Numeral

IPA: /ɛks/ [letter, name], /ks/, /ɡz/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/, /z/, /ʃ/ Audio: en-us-x.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɛks
  1. (sometimes humorous) An unknown or unspecified number of. Tags: humorous, sometimes
    Sense id: en-x-en-num-a7-GYmZB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Symbol

Etymology: Abbreviations.
  1. (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɛks/ or /ks/.
    Sense id: en-x-en-symbol-l1J-7iD0
  2. (stenoscript) the suffix or final sequence /iəs/ (-ious, -eous, -eus)
    Sense id: en-x-en-symbol-kacNJX8H Categories (other): Pages using lite templates
  3. (stenoscript) the suffix or final syllable /ʃəs/ (-tious, -cious, -xious)
    Sense id: en-x-en-symbol-JnRi36js Categories (other): Pages using lite templates
  4. (stenoscript) the suffix or final syllable /ʃəl/ (-tial, -cial)
    Sense id: en-x-en-symbol-DBNXQJKe Categories (other): Pages using lite templates
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2 Related terms: letter [Latin, letter], A [Latin, letter], a [Latin, letter], B [Latin, letter], b [Latin, letter], C [Latin, letter], c [Latin, letter], D [Latin, letter], d [Latin, letter], E [Latin, letter], e [Latin, letter], F [Latin, letter], f [Latin, letter], G [Latin, letter], g [Latin, letter], H [Latin, letter], h [Latin, letter], I [Latin, letter], i [Latin, letter], J [Latin, letter], j [Latin, letter], K [Latin, letter], k [Latin, letter], L [Latin, letter], l [Latin, letter], M [Latin, letter], m [Latin, letter], N [Latin, letter], n [Latin, letter], O [Latin, letter], o [Latin, letter], P [Latin, letter], p [Latin, letter], Q [Latin, letter], q [Latin, letter], R [Latin, letter], r [Latin, letter], S [Latin, letter], s [Latin, letter], T [Latin, letter], t [Latin, letter], U [Latin, letter], u [Latin, letter], V [Latin, letter], v [Latin, letter], W [Latin, letter], w [Latin, letter], X [Latin, letter], x [Latin, letter], Y [Latin, letter], y [Latin, letter], Z [Latin, letter], z [Latin, letter], -x, x-cat-ik

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2016-02-22, Andrew Sparrow, “David Cameron's swipe at Boris Johnson in the Commons – verdict”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "David Cameron gives a Commons statement after every EU summit and normally they follow a predictable pattern; he says that he set out with X number of aims, and then he explains he has achieved all X of them (even if he hasn’t). The most interesting comments normally come in the exchanges with MPs.",
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          "ref": "31 August 1998, Greg Upchurch, “[Eva][Fanfic] Aright”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet)",
          "text": "If there is anyone in the audience who can't stand someone pushing a Shinji x Rei thing, I know you want to quit on this fic now.",
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          "ref": "7 July 2002, Arnold Kim, “Re: Favorite couples??”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet)",
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          "ref": "29 April 2003, sephigirl, “Re: [OT] Character selections was: Re: [POLL] Identification”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet)",
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "x"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Y"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "y"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Z"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "z"
    },
    {
      "word": "-x"
    },
    {
      "word": "x-cat-ik"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English stenoscript abbreviations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the sound sequence /ɛks/ or /ks/."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stenoscript",
          "Stenoscript"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɛks/ or /ks/."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English stenoscript abbreviations",
        "Pages using lite templates"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the suffix or final sequence /iəs/ (-ious, -eous, -eus)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stenoscript",
          "Stenoscript"
        ],
        [
          "-ious",
          "-ious#English"
        ],
        [
          "-eous",
          "-eous#English"
        ],
        [
          "-eus",
          "-eus#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(stenoscript) the suffix or final sequence /iəs/ (-ious, -eous, -eus)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English stenoscript abbreviations",
        "Pages using lite templates"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the suffix or final syllable /ʃəs/ (-tious, -cious, -xious)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stenoscript",
          "Stenoscript"
        ],
        [
          "-tious",
          "-tious#English"
        ],
        [
          "-cious",
          "-cious#English"
        ],
        [
          "-xious",
          "-xious#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(stenoscript) the suffix or final syllable /ʃəs/ (-tious, -cious, -xious)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English stenoscript abbreviations",
        "Pages using lite templates"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the suffix or final syllable /ʃəl/ (-tial, -cial)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stenoscript",
          "Stenoscript"
        ],
        [
          "-tial",
          "-tial#English"
        ],
        [
          "-cial",
          "-cial#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(stenoscript) the suffix or final syllable /ʃəl/ (-tial, -cial)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "x"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). 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.