Dictionary

True, accurate.

Example: That is so.  You are responsible for this, is that not so?

In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.

Homosexual.

Example: Is he so?

To the (explicitly stated) extent that.

Example: It was so hot outside that all the plants died.  He was so good, they hired him on the spot.

To the (implied) extent.

Example: I need a piece of cloth so long. [= this long]

In a particular manner.

Example: Place the napkin on the table just so. If that's what you mean, then say so; (or do so).

In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; also.

Example: Just as you have the right to your free speech, so I have the right to mine.  Many people say she's the world's greatest athlete, but I don't think so.  "I can count backwards from one hundred." "So can I."

In order that.

Example: Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.

With the result that; for that reason; therefore.

Example: He ate too much cake, so he fell ill.

Provided that; on condition that, as long as.

Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story.

Example: So, let's go home.

Short for so what.

Example: "You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?"

Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.

Example: So how does this story end?

Used to introduce a rhetorical question.

Example: We'd like to visit but I don't know if we can afford a hotel. —So who's staying in a hotel? Stay with us.

Some person.

Example: Can someone help me, please?

A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.

(foods) A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.