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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The letter w.

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  • noun The name of the Latin script letter W/w.
  • noun The WC; the toilet.

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  • noun the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

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Examples

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 12 weeks 5 days ago

    Rangefinders 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 12 weeks 6 days ago carbon clothing certainly cant hurt.

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  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 9 weeks 5 days ago

    What's your set-up? 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 12 weeks 6 days ago carbon clothing certainly cant hurt.

    Scent Control 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 10 weeks 14 hours ago

    Wisconsin Hunters 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 9 weeks 5 days ago

    What's your set-up? 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 12 weeks 5 days ago

    Rangefinders 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 10 weeks 14 hours ago

    Wisconsin Hunters 2009

  • More than this, the press of enunciation is aimed toward the very object of its own discursive gesture across the drift from the phonetically denominated "double-u" to its single and more immediately recognized graphic variant.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • It is also curious that the letter w is called double-u in english.

    Romans, Rums, Greeks, Turks and German Emperors AYDIN 2007

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