English Explanatory Dictionary

PS

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:
  2. Proto-Slavic.
  3. Proto-Semitic.
  4. Proto-Salish, Proto-Salishan.
  5. Proto-Sahaptian.
  6. Initialism of PlayStation.
  7. Initialism of Photoshop.
  8. PostScript, a page description language.
  9. Abbreviation of South Papua: a province of Indonesia.
noun
  1. Initialism of postal service.
  2. Initialism of public school.
  3. Initialism of public service(s).
  4. Initialism of PlayStation.
  5. Initialism of paddle steamer.
  6. Initialism of power supply.
  7. Initialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  8. polystyrene
  9. Initialism of parallel slalom.
  10. Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, or postscript, initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote.
  11. Initialism of power steering.
  12. Initialism of Perlman syndrome.
adj
  1. Abbreviation of packet-switched.
noun
  1. Short for metric horsepower.
noun
  1. plural of p
noun
  1. Alternative form of PS (post scriptum).
  2. Abbreviation of power steering.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of projects (“multi-story low-income housing development”).
noun
  1. plural of P

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-PS.wav

Word forms

PS PSes PSs

Etymology

Abbreviation.

Antonyms

body

Related words

♸ P.S. ps. p.p.s.

Derived words

PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5 PSN PSP PSVR PSX BPS PPS PSA PSU SPS EPS XPS PPPPS PPPS
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