geo

See also: Geo, GEO, géo, geó, geo-, Geo., and géo-

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Georgian.

Symbol

geo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Georgian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Georgian terms

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norn gjo, from Old Norse gjá.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡjəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

geo (plural geos)

1. (Shetland, Orkney, Caithness) An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff.

See also

• chine

Etymology 2

From geo-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒiːˈəʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːəʊ

Noun

geo (plural geos)

1. (business, countable) Clipping of geography (“a sales territory or other geographic area”)
   • 2017 July 24, Karina R. Jensen, Leading Global Innovation: Facilitating Multicultural Collaboration and International Market Success, Springer, →ISBN, page 24:

     […] while a senior manager from another firm emphasized that "collaboration happens during the concept creation phase where we typically need a variety of ideas, voices from various perspectives in all geos."

   • 2019 February 18, Laura Maya, YouTube My Business, Estalontech, →ISBN:

     If performance varies per geographic location, or you have separate budgets for different geos, demographics, or steps in the funnel, you will need to create separate campaigns.

   • 2024 May 31, Josué R. Batista, Learn OpenAI Whisper: Transform your understanding of GenAI through robust and accurate speech processing solutions, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 45:

     The model generalizes across dialects. This dialectal dexterity prevents fragmented accuracy across geos and usage domains.

See also

• neo-geo

Anagrams

• EOG, GOE, Goe, ego, ego-, goe

Limburgish

Etymology 1

Clipping of geodriehook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʝeː˦joː˧]

Noun

geo m

1. (mathematics, slang) set square

Etymology 2

Clipping of geografie.

Alternative forms

• geó

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʝeː˦joː˨]

Noun

geo f

1. geography
2. (rare) geology

Etymology 3

Clipping of geótj. Possibly from the verb ótte (“to be squinting”), but this is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʝəʔˈo˦]

Adjective

geo (comparative geówer, superlative geóws, predicative superlative 't geóws)

1. (obsolete) strange

Middle English

Pronoun

geo

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) alternative form of ye (“you”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• ġiō, iū

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *ju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Adverb

ġeō

1. at some former time: once, before
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e
     hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan
     wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,

     since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
     with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon
     traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,

2. already

Derived terms

• ġeōdagas
• ġeōwine

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeo/ [ˈxe.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: ge‧o

Noun

geo m or f by sense (plural geos)

1. a member of the Grupo Especial de Operaciones

Further reading

• “geo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025