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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ob. abbreviation for - (on tombstones) obiit
- obiter
- oboe
Etymology: (for sense 1) Latin: he (or she) died; (for sense 2) Latin: incidentally; in passing WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Ob (ôb, ob; Russ. ôp),USA pronunciation n. - Place Namesa river in the W Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Ob. 2500 mi. (4025 km) long.
- Place Names Gulf of, an inlet of the Arctic Ocean. ab. 500 mi. (800 km) long.
OB, - PathologyAlso, ob [Med.]
- obstetrical.
- obstetrician.
- obstetrics.
- Show Businessoff Broadway.
- opening of books.
- ordered back.
ob-, - a prefix meaning "toward,'' "to,'' "on,'' "over,'' "against,'' orig. occurring in loanwords from Latin, but now used also, with the sense of "reversely,'' "inversely,'' to form Neo-Latin and English scientific terms:object;obligate;oblanceolate.
Also, o-, oc-, of-, op-. - Neo-Latin, Latin ob-
- Latin, representing ob (preposition); in some scientific terms,
- Old French)
- Middle English (
ob., - he died;
she died. - incidentally.
- oboe.
- Meteorologyobservation.
O.B., - opening of books.
- ordered back.
Also, O/B
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