Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation courthouse
  • abbreviation customhouse

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  • noun The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Switzerland.
  • initialism Companion of Honour, a British honour and postnomial abbreviation.
  • initialism heavy cruiser, a variant of the cruiser type of warship
  • initialism Canada the hockey club, the Montreal Canadiens
  • initialism US, army, aviation the prefix for cargo helicopter designations
  • initialism set theory continuum hypothesis

Etymologies

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Abbreviation of Latin Confoederatio Helvetica ("Swiss confederation")

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