My question is that cout is function or object?.C++

Question

if it's object then kindly tell me what is object..In my opinion,function must start with paranthesis()..Kindly clear it to me. C++

Answer 1

std::cout is a global object of the class std::ostream which is used to write output to the terminals.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/cout

Operator << is overloaded for the std::ostream class, so you can pass arguments to it's overloading function (std::ostream& operator<<(...))

https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ostream/ostream/operator%3C%3C/