Dictionary Definition
so adj
1 conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you
this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement" [syn: so(p), truthful]
2 marked by system; in good order; "everything is
in order"; "his books are always just so"; "things must be exactly
so" [syn: in order(p),
so(p)] n :
the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale
in solmization [syn: sol,
soh] adv
1 to a very great extent or degree; "the idea is
so obvious"; "never been so happy"; "I love you so"; "my head aches
so!"
2 in order that; "he stooped down so he could
pick up his hat"
3 in such a condition or manner, especially as
expressed or implied; "They're happy and I hope they will remain
so"; "so live your life that old age will bring no regrets"
4 to a certain unspecified extent or degree; "I
can only go so far with this student"; "can do only so much in a
day"
5 in the same way; also; "I was offended and so
was he"; "worked hard and so did she"
6 in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set
up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) [syn:
thus, thusly]
7 (usually followed by `that') to an extent or
degree as expressed; "he was so tired he could hardly stand"; "so
dirty that it smells"
8 subsequently or soon afterward (often used as
sentence connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right";
"first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the late movie
and then went to bed"; "and so home and to bed" [syn: then, and so, and then]
9 in truth (often tends to intensify); "they said
the car would break down and indeed it did"; "it is very cold
indeed"; "was indeed grateful"; "indeed, the rain may still come";
"he did so do it!" [syn: indeed]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Abbreviation
S.O.Etymology
From the swa.Conjunction
- In order that
- Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.
Usage notes
When used as the conjunction in a conditional sentence, instead of the usual English word order in the apodosis, wh-movement is used instead. Eg:- If he can run a marathon, so can you.
Synonyms
Translations
in order that
- Czech: aby
- Dutch: zodat, zodoende
- Esperanto: por ke
- French: afin que (followed by the subjunctive), pour que (followed by the subjunctive)
- German: damit
- Hungarian: hogy (followed by the imperative)
- Italian: perché (followed by the subjunctive)
- Novial: por
- Russian: чтобы
- Spanish: para que (followed by the subjunctive)
Adverb
Synonyms
Translations
very
to this or that extent
in this or that manner
slang: very much
Adjective
- true.
- That is so.
- You are responsible for this, is that not so?
- That is so.
- In the context of "dated|_|British|_|slang|euphemistic":
homosexual.
- Is he so?
Synonyms
- sense true correct, right, true
- musical, one of the family, one of them, that way inclined
Translations
true See true.Derived terms
Interjection
- An interjection used to introduce a question.
- So, what'll you have?
- So what?
- "You park your car in front of my house every morning." "So?"
Noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
Basque
Noun
soBosnian
Noun
soCatalan
Etymology
From sonusNoun
soFaroese
Adverb
soGerman
Adverb
soItalian
Verb form
soLojban
Cmavo
so (rafsi: soz)Romani
Adverb
soSerbian
Noun
soCyrillic spelling
Spanish
Etymology
From the Latin sub.Preposition
soUsage notes
So is very rare in modern Spanish, surviving only in certain expressions, including so pena de (on pain of, under penalty of), so pretexto de or so color de (under pretext of), a so capa (secretly, with bribery).Pronoun
soSwedish
Noun
soSynonyms
Inflection
Extensive Definition
So is a common conjunction and adverb.
SO or S-o is a common acronym used to indicate
Significant
other.
SO (and variations) may refer to:
- So (kana), the romanisation of the Japanese kana そ and ソ
- Somalia, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
- Somali
language, (ISO 639)
- .so, the top-level Internet domain of Somalia
- So people, a Mon-Khmer-speaking people of Laos and Thailand
- Sso people of Cameroon
- Special Olympics, an international organization created to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence and social skills through sports training and competition
- Sao civilisation or So, an African civilisation that flourished from ca. the 6th century to ca. 15th century
Business
- Sales order, an order received by a business from a customer
- Sosoliso Airlines, IATA airline designator
- Superior Aviation, IATA airline designator
- Southern Company, stock ticker symbol
- Standard Oil (1870-1911), a predominant integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company; dissolved by the US Supreme Court
Television
SO - Sierra Oscar, the call sign used by police officers in ITV serial drama The Bill.Music
- So (album), a music album by Peter Gabriel
- So (band), a duo from the 80s formed by two members of The Opposition
- Symphony orchestra, a type of orchestra
- So the 5th note of the Solfege
Military and police
- SO10, former Specialist Operations designation for the Metropolitan Police's Crime Operations Group
- SO11 or Specialist Operations - Intelligence, a defunct branch of Scotland Yard
- SO19 The Specialist Firearms Command of Scotland Yard, now known as CO19
- Special ops, another name for special forces
People
- So (surname), a Chinese surname
Places
- Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland
Religious Organizations
- Step Off Ministry, Christian church reaching out to Korean gangsters
Science and technology
- SO, SO alias for SOIC chip "package"
- .so, a filename extension for "shared object" dynamic library files in Unix
- Science Olympiad, a primarily American elementary, middle school, or high school team competition that requires knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability
- Service cable/cord, Oil-resistant, a type of power cord
- Shift Out, an ASCII control character in computing
- SO(4), in mathematics, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space
- SO(5), in mathematics, the special orthogonal group of degree 5 over the field R of real numbers
- SO(8), in mathematics, the special orthogonal group acting on eight-dimensional Euclidean space
- SO(10) (physics), in particle physics, one of the grand unified theories (GUT) is based on the SO(10) Lie group
- Special orthogonal group, a subset of an orthogonal group
- StarOffice, a commercial package of office software produced by Sun Microsystems
- Sulfur monoxide, a compound with the chemical formula SO
Other
- SO, Sony or Sony Ericsson's mobile phones of NTT DoCoMo in Japan.
See also
so in German: SO
so in Esperanto: So
so in French: SO
so in Korean: SO
so in Italian: SO
so in Dutch: So
so in Japanese: SO
so in Portuguese: SO
so in Kölsch: SO (Watt ėßß datt?)
so in Finnish: So
so in Swedish: SO
so in Chinese: SO
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a deal, a great deal, a lot, abundantly, accordingly, accurately, ad eundem, after
this fashion, almighty,
along these lines, as, as all
creation, as all get-out, as long as, as well, at what price,
awful, awfully, beaucoup, by what mode, by what
name, ceteris paribus, consequently, considerable, considerably, correctly, correspondingly,
either, equally, equivalently, ergo, evenly, ever so, ever so much,
exceedingly,
exceptionally,
extremely, faultlessly, flawlessly, for, galore, greatly, hence, highly, how, identically, in
consideration of, in contemplation of, in great measure, in kind,
in like manner, in order to, in such wise, in that way, in this
way, in what way, indifferently, just, just like that, just right,
just so, largely,
like, like so, like that,
like this, likewise,
mightily, mighty, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end
of, not a little, only too, parlous, perfectly, plenty, powerful, powerfully, precisely, pretty, pretty much, properly, proportionately,
quite, real, really, right, rightly, sic, similarly, so as, so as to, so
long as, so that, so very much, straight, suchlike, terribly, terrifically, then, thereupon, this way,
this-a-way, thus, thus and
so, thus and thus, thusly, thuswise, to, to the skies, very, very much, whacking, whopping, without
distinction