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s or S (es)

noun pl. S's, s's

  1. the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek sigma, a borrowing from the Phoenician
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (s) of soap or (z) of rise
  3. a type or impression for s or S
  4. the nineteenth in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of s or S
  2. nineteenth in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like
s2 definition

s

  1. school
  2. second(s)
  3. section
  4. see
  5. semi
  6. series
  7. shilling(s)
  8. sign
  9. silver
  10. singular
  11. sire
  12. society
  13. son
  14. soprano
  15. south
  16. southern
  17. substantive
S1 definition

S

  1. Sabbath
  2. Football safety (the player)
    sometimes written s
  3. Saint
  4. Bible Samuel
  5. Saturday
  6. Saxon
  7. Seaman
  8. Senate
  9. September
  10. siemens
  11. Signor
  12. small
  13. Society
  14. South
  15. south
  16. southern
  17. Sunday
  18. Etymology: L signa

    Pharmacy write
S2 definition

S

  1. Physics entropy
  2. Chem. sulfur

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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