bio

See also: Bio, bi'o, bio., -bio, bio-, Bio., bíó, and Appendix:Variations of "bio"

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

Noun

bio (plural bios)

  1. Clipping of biography.
  2. biographical sketch
  3. (informal) Clipping of biology.
    I've got a bio exam in the morning.
  4. (South Africa, informal) bioscope; cinema
    • 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal (volumes 1-3, page 31)
      Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.

Adjective

bio (not comparable)

  1. (informal) biological.
    a bio detergent

Anagrams


Danish

Noun

bio

  1. (slang) cinema
  2. (slang) biology

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bjo/
  • Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

Clipping of biologique

Adjective

bio (invariable)

  1. (colloquial) biological
  2. (ecology) organic

Etymology 2

Clipping of biologie

Noun

bio f (plural bios)

  1. (colloquial) biology

Etymology 3

Noun

bio m (plural bios)

  1. (informal) the organic movement
  2. (informal) organic food

Etymology 4

Clipping of biographie

Noun

bio f (plural bios)

  1. (colloquial, abbreviation) biography

Further reading

Anagrams


Guerrero Amuzgo

Noun

bio

  1. time

Italian

Adjective

bio (invariable)

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of biologico; organic, biological

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish béo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [blʲoː], [bʲoː]

Adjective

bio

  1. alive
  2. live

Noun

bio m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. living person

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
bioviomio
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bîo/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧o

Adjective

bȉo (definite bijȇlī, comparative bjèljī, Cyrillic spelling би̏о)

  1. Alternative form of bijȇl.

Spanish

Adjective

bio (invariable)

  1. bio (biological)

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of biograf, the actual movie theater where you can ”gå på bio”.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

bio c

  1. the movies
    Jag ska på bio ikväll, vill du hänga med?
    I'm going to the movies tonight, you wanna join?

Declension

Declension of bio 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative bio bion
Genitive bios bions

Derived terms

  • biosalong
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