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- [noo, nyoo]
- /nu, nyu/
- /nuː/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [noo, nyoo]
- /nu, nyu/
Definitions of gnus word
- noun plural gnus either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected. 1
- noun gnus Plural form of gnu. 1
- noun Technical meaning of gnus (tool, networking) GNU news. A GNU Emacs subsystem for reading and sending Usenet news, written by Masanobu Umeda <[email protected]>. You can use GNUS to browse through news groups, look at summaries of articles in a specific group, and read articles of interest. You can respond to authors or write articles or replies to all the readers of a news group. GNUS can be configured to use the NNTP protocol to get news from a remove server or it can read it from local news spool files. 1
- noun gnus plural of gnu. 0
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Origin of gnus
First appearance:
before 1770 One of the 46% newest English words
1770-80; < Khoikhoi, first recorded as t’gnu; probably to be identified with ǂnû black, as applying orig. to the black wildebeest
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Parts of speech for Gnus
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gnus popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data about 54% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
gnus usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with gnus
- where do gnus live?
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