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Meaning of S | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2 Common
ɛs

Definitions

  1. An orthographic ⟨s⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /z/, as in the word "his".
  2. The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called long s, medial s or descending s and written in the Latin script.
  3. The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
  4. Abbreviation of scruple, a unit of mass in the apothecaries' system.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  5. Initialism of south.
  6. An axiomatic set theory, developed by logician George Boolos, in which several of the axioms of ZF are derivable as theorems.
  7. Abbreviation of strange quark.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  8. Initialism of season (group of episodes of a series).
  9. Initialism of small (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
  10. Initialism of soprano.
  11. Initialism of subtitles.
  12. Initialism of sextodecimo (book size, 15-17.5 cm in height).

Equivalents

Bosanski s
Deutsch S
Français S S
Hrvatski s
Italiano S s
日本語 S
Kurdî ş
Português s
Српски s
Svenska s

Examples

“I watched S01 through 03. I have yet to watch the S04.”
“The pilot episode is S01E01.”
“S has no axiom of extensionality and identity is absent from the other S axioms.”
“VVritten in Latine by M.Iohn Caluine, and tranſlated into Engliſ he according to the authors laſt edition, By thomas norton. […] And the redemptor ſ hall come to Sion,and vnto thẽ that turne frõ their vvickednes in Iacob.”
“God is not onely a bare permiſsiue agent in an euill worke, but a powerfull effectour of the ſame[…]”
“The Lord Commiſsioner ſheweth, that it is his Majeſties will that the Parliament be prorogated to the 2. of June, and that by his Majeſties authority only: of the prorogation, the prætenſion is pag. 30.”
“So upon the 20. of August Mr. Frederick Schzdel a Merchant, ſet ſail in the good Ship called the Brown Fiſh, very richly freighted with all ſorts of Merchandizes from Taiwan to Canton; and after nine days ſail, landed in the Canton River, at a place called Heytamon.”
“THE FIRST VISION OF THE Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſest.”
“Dor. I have been told, noble Squire, that you once impos’d a certain lady for Dulcinea on your maſter; now what think you if this young lady here ſhould perſonate that incomparable princeſs? / Jez. Who, I? / San. Adod! your princeſsſhip has hit it; for he has never ſeen this Dulcinea, nor has any body elſe, that I can hear of;”
“But he does not ſtab him for his treachery toward hisſelf […]”
“Many fanciful methods have been invented by thoſe who wiſhed to render puerile ſports conducive to improvement. I never found that they were ſucceſsful. I muſt own myſelf an advocate for puerile liberty*, during the alloted hours of relaxation. Boys have much reſtraint and confinement in the time of ſtudy.”
“75. On the 11th of May, 1759, the Lords amend a turnpike road Bill, by inſerting a clauſe, “That no gate ſhall be erected within a mile of Enſham Ferry”. The conſideration of this amendment is reſolved, nemine contradicente, to be put off for a month.”
“Engliſh Poems /[…]/ New York: The Caſsell Publiſhing Company, 104, Fourth Avenᵉ.”
“Do you deem it to be ſenſible to bring back the long ‘s’?[…] It would ſuck.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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