- a small drinking cup or goblet
- its contents; a small draft
Origin of tass
Late Middle English tasse from Middle French from Old French from Arabic ??sa, shallow metal cup from Persian tast, a cuptass
tassTass
a Soviet agency for gathering and distributing news
Origin of Tass
Russian TASS from Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskogo Sojuza, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet UnionWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union
Origin
From Russian ТАСС (TASS), acronym of Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза (Telegrafnoje agentstvo Sovetskogo Sojuza).
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