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

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

character

  1. 1

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

numeral

  1. 1

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

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of southInitialism of south.

  2. 2

    Variant of seasonInitialism of season (group of episodes of a series).

    I watched S01 through 03. I have yet to watch the S04.

    The pilot episode is S01E01.

  3. 3

    Variant of smallInitialism of small (the manufactured size or an item of that size).

  4. 4

    Variant of sopranoInitialism of soprano.

  5. 5

    Variant of subtitlesInitialism of subtitles.

  6. 6

    Variant of sextodecimoInitialism of sextodecimo (book size, 15-17.5 cm in height).

Etymology

Abbreviation.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of smallInitialism of small (of the manufactured size).

  2. 2

    Variant of satisfactoryInitialism of satisfactory.

proper noun

  1. 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.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
Ss, S's
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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).