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os

nounnounnounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɒs//
  • United Kingdom//əʊz//
  • United States//ɑs//
  • United States//oʊz//

Synonym of bone.

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of bone.

    I was once, I remember, called to a Patient, who had received a violent Contuſion in his Tibia, by which the exterior Cutis was lacerated, ſo that there was a profuſe ſanguinary Diſcharge; and the interior Membranes were ſo divellicated, that the Os or Bone very plainly appeared through the Aperture of the Vulnus or Wound.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin os (“bone”).

noun

  1. 1

    An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).

    The instrument closed, as seen in Fig. 1, is then passed along the finger to the os, in and through the cervix up to the fundus of the uterus, which may be determined both by the distance and the resistance to the broad rounded head of the Capiat.

    […] monocolpate (“unisulcate”) pollen grains still have a continuous aperture membrane devoid of special openings (ora) in the exine for the emergence of the pollen tube.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s Proto-Italic *ōs Latin ōsubor. English os Unadapted borrowing from Latin ōs (“mouth”).

noun

  1. 1

    An osar or esker.

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish ås.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of o'srareAlternative form of o's.

Etymology

From o + -s.

Forms

plural
ossa, ora, osar
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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).