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fas¹

noun

  1. plural plural of fa

fas²

Where it comes from

From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.

noun fases

  1. Scotland, obsolete A border or fringe.
  2. Scotland, obsolete A thing represented as being worthless. Not worth a fas

FAS³

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Financial Assistance Scheme In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes.
  2. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Federation of American Scientists FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities).
  3. Malaysia, abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of Federation Air Service
  4. abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of Free African Society

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she sai

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of free alongside ship

Fas⁴

proper noun

  1. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

FAs⁵

proper noun

  1. plural plural of FA

noun

  1. plural plural of FA

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: fos, acc, ats, saf, iaf, scf, cws, css, slc, axe, aff, sfa, ligand, fez, syndrome, pbs

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"fas." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fas. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

fas. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fas

Chicago

"fas." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fas.

BibTeX
@misc{fas_2026,
  title = {fas},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fas},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}