B.
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Meaning & usage
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Where this word comes from
From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).
The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Where this word comes from
From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).
The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
$2.8 B
The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
Abbreviation of bishop.
The number of balls faced by a batsman.
Bass.
Bastard.
Bitch.
Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.
A B cell.
Where this word comes from
From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch
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Where this word comes from
From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch
A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.
The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
The seventh note in the C major scale.
Where this word comes from
From the use of the letter ‘B’ as an arbitrary label among other letter labels. * (personality type): from contrast with the letter ‘A’ and its corresponding personality type * (academic grade): from the position of the letter ‘B’ in the English alphabet
A programming language from which C is derived.
Where this word comes from
Possibly a contraction of BCPL (“Basic Combined Programming Language”), the name of a programming language from which B was derived. Dennis Ritchie (a coworker of B’s designer, Ken Thompson) speculated that B might be based on Bon (the name of an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics), itself either from Bonnie (the name of Thompson’s wife) or “(according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas”.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.