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  • Lu
    Lu
    noun
    a male or female given name, form of Lou.
  • LU
    LU
    abbreviation
    loudness unit
  • lu
    lu
    abbreviation
    Luxembourg

Lu

1 American  
[loo] / lu /

noun

  1. a male or female given name, form of Lou.


Lu 2 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. lutetium.


LU 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. loudness unit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Lu 2 British  

symbol

  1. lutetium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

lu 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Luxembourg

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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When Lu was arrested in April 2023, federal prosecutors also unveiled a litany of related charges against several security officers of China’s Ministry of Public Security and others.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

"This is an exciting and rapidly evolving field," Ms Lu said.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

By studying the molecular-glue patents of Bristol-Myers and Novartis, GluBio drew lessons that “helped us further improve our compounds” and clearly differentiate its experimental drugs from Novartis and Bristol-Myers’s, Lu said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Xiaomeng Lu, a director at political consultancy Eurasia Group, says mainland Chinese tech firms are "shifting to Hong Kong" for their primary share listing as "geopolitical headwinds dampen their dreams" to float in New York.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

And right when I was oonting, Lu and Ghost and Patty walked up.

From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds