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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The 24th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
  2. n. The end.
  3. n. See omega baryon.
  4. n. See omega meson.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω); hence, figuratively, the last of anything.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
  2. n. The end; the final, last or ultimate in a series.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See alpha.
  2. n. The last; the end; hence, death.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet
  2. n. the ending of a series or sequence

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Ancient Greek μέγα (mega, "large") (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Greek ō mega, large o (from its being a long vowel in Greek) : ō, the letter o + mega, neuter of megas, large, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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