[DUPLICATE] What's the meaning of cout?

Question

cout<<

Answer 1

C - output , its a standard output stream and you can use it for (simple for prints something)...

cout << "Hello!" and will be prints Hello...

Answer 2

From this post (over a year old, so I guess I'll copy in the text again)
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/135444/?ref=app

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"

From here, note 'wcout' (wide char out), etc
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2262238/3981745

Proving iostreams (they can be redirected):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10150468/how-to-redirect-cin-and-cout-to-files