Meaning

3 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A P wave on an electrocardiogram.

  2. (countable, uncountable)An academic grade issued by certain educational institutions to indicate that a student passes a class.

  3. (Multicultural London English, countable, slang, uncountable)A pound (currency unit).

    Poundz, Life I Live They don't know 'bout the life that I live, / Man made bare Ps and buy new sticks

More definitions
  • the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet
  • the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet
  • a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms

Examples

344 sentences

  1. She got in at 9 p.m.

    Вона прийшла о дев'ятій вечора. — aandrusiak

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  2. I'll be there at five p.m.

    Я буду там о п'ятій вечора. — deniko

    ruЯ буду там в пять. — Biga

    deIch werde um fünf Uhr nachmittags dort sein. — Adelpa

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  3. The plane is due at 7 p.m.

    Лiтак приземлиться о 19:00. — rmdas

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  4. The pool will be open until 2:30 p.m.

    Басейн буде відкрито до 14:30. — deniko

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  5. The children were allowed to stay up till 10 p.m.

    Дітям дозволили не спати до десятої вечора. — deniko

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Origin

Abbreviations.

Abbreviations.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: Ps
SingularP
PluralPs

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms:phosphorusatomic number 15

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

8 patterns
  • p m m
  • at p m
  • after p m
  • m to p
  • open at p
  • until p m
  • until p
  • to p m

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
oysterozoneB2paceB1

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