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los¹

  • /lɒs/ UK
  • /lɑs/ US

Sounds like loss · Rhymes with -ɒs

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English lusk, from Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz. Cognate with Scots los, Saterland Frisian Luks, Low German Luks, Dutch los, German Luchs, Luxembourgish Luuss.

noun loses · losse

  1. obsolete A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx. The los had been brought from a northern part of the United States.

    Similar: lynx

los²

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English los, from Old English los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą, from Proto-Indo-European *lews-.

noun loses

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of loss If we come under France, we have not onely Spaine our enimie by Sea and Land (as we have ſhewne) but the los of our Spaniſh Trade, and the hazarding of our whole Levant Traffick: And if we rightly calculate, that amounts to no ſmall part of our Commerce.

los³

noun

  1. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”).

Los⁴

proper noun

  1. plural plural of Lo

LOS⁵

noun LOSs · L.O.S. · L. O. S.

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of level of service
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of line of sight
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of loss of signal
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Law of the Sea
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of line of supply
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of large offspring syndrome
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of lipooligosaccharide

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of loan origination system, a software application or ASP solution for originating loans.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Land of Smiles (a nickname for Thailand).

LOs⁶

noun

  1. plural plural of LO

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: its, the, all, any, loos, luo, their, angeles, luz, luce, california, cerritos, monterey, flo, diego, luis

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Chicago

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

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@misc{los_2026,
  title = {los},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/los},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}