Aas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village in southwest France, in the Ossau valley of the Pyrenees.
  2. A surname from Norwegian.
name
  1. Initialism of Australian Anthropological Society.
  2. Initialism of American Arachnological Society, a society of amateur and professional arachnologists.
  3. Initialism of American Astronautical Society, an independent scientific and technical group in the United States.
  4. Initialism of American Astronomical Society, a United States society of professional astronomers.
  5. Initialism of Australian Academy of Science, an independent, government-endorsed society with the aim of promoting science.
  6. Initialism of All-America Selections, an organization that promotes development of new garden seed varieties.
  7. Initialism of Air Ambulance Service, a UK charity.
  8. Initialism of Assyrian Aid Society.
  9. Initialism of American Anti-Slavery Society.
  10. Initialism of Ansar al-Sunna, or Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group operating in Iraq.
  11. Initialism of American Association of Suicidology, an American nonprofit suicide prevention organization.
  12. Initialism of Association for Academic Surgery.
noun
  1. Initialism of Advanced Automation System, a system for radar control of transoceanic air corridors.
  2. Initialism of angle-angle-side triangular congruency.
  3. Initialism of anabolic–androgenic steroid.
  4. Initialism of acute aortic syndrome.
noun
  1. plural of AA
verb
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of AA

Word forms

Aas AASs

Etymology

* The place in France is from Occitan Aas, from Basque/Aquitanian aitz (“ridge, rocky point”). * As a Norwegian and Swedish surname, from the noun ås (“ridge”).

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