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Meaning of Coo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
kuː

Definitions

  1. The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
  2. Initialism of chief operating officer.
  3. An expression of pleasure made by a person.
  4. Initialism of country of origin.

Equivalents

Examples

“The male [ring dove] will continue nest-coos for 3–4 days until his female partner begins to nest-coo. At that point the male's nest-coo begins to become less frequent[…].”
“An infant has only cries and coos with which to communicate distress and well-being. Adults have many more ways of expressing themselves. However, their expressions of disease and ease can be boiled down to sophisticated cries and coos. A call for help in whatever form is a cry. A sense of well-being however expressed is a coo. Healing in the context of cries and coos can be viewed as the process of resolving the cries and fostering the coos.”
“Atsme similarly protested when editors sought to portray Trump as racist by referring to a reconstructed and uncorroborated conversation in a book by a former COO at one of Trump’s companies, which attributes to Trump defamatory and racist remarks against black people.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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