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    LS
    left side.
  • L.S.
    L.S.
    abbreviation
    Licentiate in Surgery.
  • ls
    ls
    abbreviation
    (on a document) the place of the seal

LS

1 American  
  1. left side.

  2. letter signed.

  3. library science.

  4. lightship.


L.S. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Licentiate in Surgery.

  2. Linnaean Society.

  3. the place of the seal, as on a document; locus sigilli. Also l.s.


LS 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Lesotho (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ls 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. (on a document) the place of the seal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ls 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Lesotho

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ls

from Latin locus sigilli

Example Sentences

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Linkedln: If you try to post a profile here, clearly you didn’t check your I’s and l’s to watch for phishing sites, so you don’t deserve a cybersecurity job anyway.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

Curving columns of lower-case l’s make the sides of the face.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

My 2-year-old daughter Claudia cannot articulate r’s or l’s properly and falls asleep sucking on the ear of a putrid stuffed sheep.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2015

Or ‘you are sooo ugly’ — but with 10 u’s, 10 g’s, 10 l’s, like they’re all screaming it at someone.”

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010

He turned red, thinking of his trouble with long a’s, th’s, l’s, consonants at the ends of words.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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