Un (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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pronoun Dialect.
  1. one: young uns; He's a bad un.
abbreviation
  1. United Nations (def. 1).
  1. a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative or opposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment).
  1. a prefix freely used in English to form verbs expressing a reversal of some action or state, or removal, deprivation, release, etc. (unbend; uncork; unfasten, etc.), or to intensify the force of a verb already having such a meaning (unloose).
pronoun
  1. a spelling of one that's a big 'un
abbreviation for
  1. United Nations
prefix
  1. not; contrary to; opposite of
prefix forming verbs and verbal derivatives
  1. denoting reversal of an action or state
  2. denoting removal from, release, or deprivation
  3. (intensifier)
Un (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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