together; joint or jointly; mutual or mutually: coproduction indicating partnership or equality: cofounder, copilot to the same or a similar degree: coextend (in mathematics and astronomy) of the complement of an angle: cosecant, codeclination
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
CO,
an abbreviation of:
co-, prefix.
Co. or co., an abbreviation of:
C/o or c/o, an abbreviation of:
c.o., an abbreviation of:
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Place NamesColorado.
- MilitaryCommanding Officer.
- conscientious objector.
co-, prefix.
- co- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "joint, jointly, together.'' This meaning is found in such words as: costar, coworker.
- A similar meaning for this prefix is "auxiliary, helping.'' This meaning is found in such words as: copilot.
Co. or co., an abbreviation of:
- Company.
- County.
C/o or c/o, an abbreviation of:
- care of.
c.o., an abbreviation of:
- care of.
- carried over.
CO,
co-,
Co.,
- Colorado (approved esp. for use with zip code).
- MilitaryCommanding Officer.
- conscientious objector.
- Chemistrycobalt.
co-,
- var. of com- before a vowel, h, and gn: coadjutor;
cohabit;
cognate. The prefix co- now productively forms new words from bases beginning with any sound (co-conspirator;
co-manage;
coseismic), sometimes with the derived sense "auxiliary, subsidiary'' (coenzyme;
copilot), and, in mathematics and astronomy, with the sense "complement'' (codeclination).
Co.,
- Company.
- County.
- Businesscash order.
- certificate of origin.
- care of.
- Business[Bookkeeping.]carried over.
- care of.
- Business[Bookkeeping.]carried over.
- Businesscash order.
- Businesscash order.
- Military, Commanding Officer.
- conscientious objector.
- correction officer.
- care of.
- carried over.
'co-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Acapulco gold
- Achill Island
- Antrim
- Ards
- Armagh
- Ballymena
- Ballymoney
- Banbridge
- Bangor
- Belfast
- Belshazzar
- Binet
- Brunswick stew
- CO
- COBOL
- Carlow
- Carrickfergus
- Casco Bay
- Castlebar
- Castlereagh
- Cavan
- Clare
- Clonmel
- Co
- Co Derry
- Co Durham
- Coleraine
- Colorado
- account
- acetyl
- acetyl group
- acetylcholine
- acquaint
- agrarian
- alfresco
- alizarin
- alnico
- ampersand
- antitobacco
- antlerite
- apatite
- arc cosine
- ascending colon
- atamasco lily
- azurite
- benzocaine
- black cohosh
- blackfin
- blue cohosh
- bowser