Word info

theo

Speech parts

1. theo - Noun

2. Theo - Proper noun

Meaning

A male given name from Ancient Greek and nickname.

(less common) A diminutive of the female given name Theodora.

theo (uncountable)

(informal) The amount of a gambler's theoretical losses based on typical play.

Theo.

Abbreviation of Theodore.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Theo.

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Examples

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. Otto Schily

However, new plasticism is pure painting [in contrast with the opinion of Theo van Doesburg, then]: the means of expression still are form and color, though these are completely interiorized; the straight line and flat color remain purely pictorial means of expression. Piet Mondrian

The planet doesn't hate you,” Theo had once said. "But its intimacies are fatal. Robert Charles Wilson

I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings [a. o. with Theo van Doesburg ] and draw commercial art for newspapers. Kurt Schwitters

He has the record on 40 metres. I think it's 4.72 seconds or something like that. Certainly Theo could have been a 100-metre runner. Theo Walcott

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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