os
/ɑs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Owen Sound.
name
Initialism of The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
name
Initialism of Old Saxon.
adj
Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.
adj
Initialism of oversize.
adj
Initialism of Old Style, a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.
adj
Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
adj
Initialism of over shoulder.
Example Sentences
- "You did the overseas trip. You went OS."
- "I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas]."
- "We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area."
- "Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741."
- "I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop."
- "Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɑs/
- British English: /ɒs/
Usage
- Australian usage
- Informal
- British usage