English Explanatory Dictionary

ess

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The name of the Latin script letter S/s.
  2. Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)
verb
  1. To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.
particle
  1. Yes.
name
  1. Initialism of Enterprise Storage Server.
  2. Initialism of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
noun
  1. Initialism of evolutionarily stable strategy
  2. Initialism of electronic switching system.
  3. Abbreviation of energy storage system.
  4. Initialism of employee self-service.
  5. Initialism of earth system science.
  6. Initialism of explained sum of squares.
  7. Initialism of euthyroid sick syndrome.
  8. Initialism of electronic still store.
name
  1. A surname from German.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of ess.

Pronunciation

ĕs /ˈɛs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ess.wav

Word forms

ess esses es essing essed

Etymology

* As a north/Low German surname, from the archaic noun es, ehe (“swamp water”), possibly from a corruption of *ahu (“stream, river”). * As a Switzerland German/Alemannic German surname, from Ess (“pasture, grazing area”), from Proto-Germanic *atiska- (“grainfield”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂edos- (“sort of cereal, grain”), related to Latin ador (“spelt”), Hittite [script needed] (ḫattāi-, “to cut (grain)”). * Also as a Swiss German surname, from a short form of Oswald. * As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Ess, itself a variant of Van Es, from van + the placename Esch in North Brabant.

Derived words

collar of esses de-ess ess-hook long ess short ess

Translations

Arabic: إِس Asturian: ese Bengali: এস Bulgarian: ес Catalan: essa Czech: esko Danish: es Dutch: es Esperanto: so Faroese: ess Finnish: äs Finnish: ässä French: esse Galician: ese Greek: ες Hawaiian: sā Hindi: एस Ido: se Indonesian: es Irish: eas Irish: sail Japanese: エス Korean: 에스 Latin: es Malay: es Marathi: एस Norwegian Bokmål: ess Norwegian Nynorsk: ess Occitan: èssa Portuguese: esse Russian: эс Spanish: ese Tagalog: es Tagalog: sa (Abakada) Tagalog: ese Thai: เอส Turkish: se Vietnamese: ét Vietnamese: sờ Vietnamese: xờ mạnh Vietnamese: xờ nặng Welsh: ès
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