Cho

name, noun

name, noun ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of chief happiness officer: a person employed to improve employees' morale. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  2. 2
    Initialism of chief health officer. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  3. 3
    Acronym of Chinese hamster ovary (only used attributively as an adjective). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Korean.
  2. 2
    A surname from Cantonese.

Example

More examples

"South Korean pianist Cho Seong-jin played one of Mozart's previously unheard compositions for the first time at the start of the 2021 Mozartwoche Festival."

Etymology

From Korean 조(趙) (Jo) and 조(曺) (Jo), or Cantonese 曹 (cou4).

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