cy
cycle; cycles.
Other definitions for Cy (2 of 6)
a male given name, form of Cyrus.
Other definitions for CY (3 of 6)
calendar year.
Other definitions for -cy (4 of 6)
a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially -nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy).
a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself: captaincy; magistracy.
Origin of -cy
4Other definitions for cy. (5 of 6)
capacity.
currency.
cycle; cycles.
Other definitions for Cy. (6 of 6)
county.
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How to use cy in a sentence
The cy-Fair campus is one of six that make up the Lone Star College System.
“It was a chaotic scene,” said Capt. Robert Rasa of the cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department.
cy Twombly, who died yesterday in Rome, was in every way too big for modern art.
A month after meeting Stella, Castelli showed cy Twombly, another Southerner like Rauschenberg and Johns.
They are there, they sit there, these canvases by cy Twombly that seem to be encrusted in the bricks of the walls.
Celuy-cy avoit souvent esvad le danger d'estre noy, et tout fraischement le beau jour de la Pentecoste dernire.
Of course cy goes practically every week, but I have always wanted another girl to go with.
Dope | Sax Rohmer"Mebbe it is, and mebbe it isn't," returned cy Parker stoutly.
Stories in Light and Shadow | Bret Harte"cy's got a hard heart, Ruth," he said with a sudden gravity that came strangely through his youthfulness.
Fidelity | Susan GlaspellThen, "We don't have to bother getting any room ready for cy," he said, with a scoffing little laugh.
Fidelity | Susan Glaspell
British Dictionary definitions for CY (1 of 2)
Cyprus (international car registration)
British Dictionary definitions for -cy (2 of 2)
(forming nouns from adjectives ending in -t, -tic, -te, and -nt) indicating state, quality, or condition: plutocracy; lunacy; intimacy; infancy
(forming abstract nouns from other nouns) rank or office: captaincy
Origin of -cy
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