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  • United States

Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: Proto-Slavic.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: Proto-Slavic.

  2. 2

    Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: Proto-Semitic.

  3. 3

    Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: Proto-Salish, Proto-Salishan.

  4. 4

    Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names: Proto-Sahaptian.

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    Variant of PlayStationInitialism of PlayStation.

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    Variant of PhotoshopInitialism of Photoshop.

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    Variant of PostScriptAbbreviation of PostScript, a page description language.

  8. 8

    Variant of South PapuaAbbreviation of South Papua: a province of Indonesia.

Etymology

Abbreviation.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of postal serviceInitialism of postal service.

    USPS

  2. 2

    Variant of public schoolInitialism of public school.

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    Variant of public service(s)Initialism of public service(s).

  4. 4

    Variant of PlayStationInitialism of PlayStation.

  5. 5

    Variant of paddle steamerInitialism of paddle steamer.

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    Variant of power supplyInitialism of power supply.

  7. 7

    Variant of police sergeantInitialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.

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    Variant of polystyreneAbbreviation of polystyrene

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    Variant of parallel slalomInitialism of parallel slalom.

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    Variant of post scriptumInitialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, or postscript, initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote.

    PS I love you.

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    Variant of power steeringdatedInitialism of power steering.

    PS, PB, PW, PDL, ice-cold A/C [power steering, power brakes, power windows, power door locks, ice-cold air conditioning]

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    Variant of Perlman syndromeInitialism of Perlman syndrome.

adjective

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    Variant of packet-switchedAbbreviation of packet-switched.

noun

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    Variant of metric horsepowerShort for metric horsepower.

    The powertrain also produces 306 PS (225 kW), enough to propel the 1,858 kg Cross Coupé from zero to 62 mph in 6.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 137 mph. […] The four-seater i-oniq concept has a 1.0-litre, 3-cylinder petrol engine which is mated, via a generator, to a lithium ion electric motor which produces 109 PS.

Etymology

Borrowed from German PS (“Pferdestärke”, literally “horsepower”).

Forms

plural
PSes, PSs
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).