ess
/ˈɛs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.82 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The name of the Latin script letter S/s.
particle
Yes.
name
name
Initialism of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
Example Sentences
- "1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / the ess / were the sounds / of success"
- "I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time."
- "'Big chap, edn' 'a?' I thought he was the biggest chap I had ever seen. 'Ess,' said Corin."
- "Overheard in Cornwall: 'Oh, ess, diden' ee know I gived up keepin' ducks? They wus allus comin' 'ome lost'."
Etymology
* As a north/Low German surname, from the archaic noun es, ehe (“swamp water”), possibly from a corruption of *ahu (“stream, river”). * As a Switzerland German/Alemannic German surname, from Ess (“pasture, grazing area”), from Proto-Germanic *atiska- (“grainfield”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂edos- (“sort of cereal, grain”), related to Latin ador (“spelt”), Hittite [script needed] (ḫattāi-, “to cut (grain)”). * Also as a Swiss German surname, from a short form of Oswald. * As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Ess, itself a variant of Van Es, from van + the placename Esch in North Brabant.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, *atiska-, *h₂edos-