What does " cout " mean ?

Question

C++

Answer 1

Ace , I thought 'cout' is the short of 'console output' ?

Answer 2

cout is used to write something to the console. Example:
cout << "Hello world! ";
will print "Hello world" in the console

Answer 3

Ace oh ok thanks

Answer 4

Adding here since I've linked a dup back here:

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#cout

' "cout" is pronounced "see-out". The "c" stands for "character" because iostreams map values to and from byte (char) representations.'
-- Bjarne Stroustrup