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s¹

  • /ɛs/
  • /s/ phoneme
  • /ʃ/ phoneme
  • /z/ phoneme
  • /ʒ/ phoneme

Rhymes with -ɛs

letter S · ss · s's

  1. letter, lowercase The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

number S · ss · s's

  1. lowercase, number The nineteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

s²

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of scruple, a unit of mass in the apothecaries' system.
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of strange quark
  3. alternative Alternative form of s.

S³

  • /ɛs/
  • /s/ phoneme
  • /z/ phoneme
  • /ʒ/ phoneme

Rhymes with -ɛs

letter s · Ss · S's

  1. letter, uppercase The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

number s · Ss · S's

  1. uppercase, number The nineteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

S⁴

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

noun Ss

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of south
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of season (group of episodes of a series). I watched S01 through 03. I have yet to watch the S04.
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable, usually Initialism of small (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of soprano
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of subtitles

    Similar: CC, sub

  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of sextodecimo (book size, 15-17.5 cm in height).
  7. abbreviation, countable, dated, initialism, uncountable Initialism of sadist

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable, usually Initialism of small (of the manufactured size).
  2. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of satisfactory

S⁵

Where it comes from

From the first letter of set and of stage, two fundamental concepts of the theory.

proper noun

  1. An axiomatic set theory, developed by logician George Boolos, in which several of the axioms of ZF are derivable as theorems. S has no axiom of extensionality and identity is absent from the other S axioms.

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noun south

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@misc{s_2026,
  title = {s},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/s},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}