os
noun
a bone.
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- plural of O.
os
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[os]
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ossa
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ora
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[ohs]
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osar
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o/s
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(of the calendar) Old Style.
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out of stock.
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(in banking) outstanding.
O/S
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O.S.
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Or
o.s.
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O.S.
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OS
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Old School
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Old Style (method of reckoning dates)
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Ordinary Seaman
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(in Britain) Ordnance Survey
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outsize
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Old Saxon (language)
o.s.
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out of stock
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banking outstanding
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symbol
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/ əʊs /
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of os1
First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin os (inflectional stem oss- ) “bone”
Origin of os2
First recorded in 1730–40; from Latin ōs (inflectional stem ōr- ) “mouth”
Origin of os3
First recorded in 1840–50 as osar (plural); from Swedish ås (plural åsar ) “ridge (of a hill),” from Old Norse áss “thick pole or main beam; rocky ridge”
Origin of O.S.8
From Latin oculus sinister
Vocabulary lists containing os
Example Sentences
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A new Longevity Preparedness Index from John Hancock and MIT AgeLab os based on a survey of over 1,300 adults and focused on eight areas such as finance, home, health and community.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
She first broke through with 2016’s “Remonta,” an album she recorded with her former band Liniker e os Caramelows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
Ambos os programas são “fundamentais para entender a expansão agrícola no Brasil e as emissões de carbono do desmatamento na Amazônia,” diz Douglas Morton, especialista em sensoriamento remoto do Goddard Space Flight Center da NASA.
From Science Magazine ● May 26, 2022
Hours later, Kelly posts bail and os released from jail in Chicago.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Newton disliked infinitesimals, the little os in his fluxion equations that sometimes acted like zeros and sometimes like nonzero numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
In 1988, he founded Luaka Bop, a record label whose influential compilations have introduced American audiences to lesser-known classics of world pop and psychedelia, such as Brazil’s Os Mutantes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"The Dutch experience in my opinion offers a warning for Canada," Os cautioned.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
As a show of gratitude to the girls and the gays, Os transforms from “Belladona” to Primadonna in vogue-ready house bangers like “Slay,” “Problemática,” and “Boom In Your Face.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
Last year, Os also pulled a page from Taylor Swift’s playbook by releasing the concert film “Kenia Os: La OG” in theaters in both the U.S. and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
“The rest, eh, Pip?” said Joe, looking at it with a slow, searching eye, “One, two, three. Why, here’s three Js, and three Os, and three J-O, Joes in it, Pip!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Apple is also rolling out its latest Apple Intelligence updates through its iOS 27 and Mac OS 27 upgrades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The OS first started mapping Britain 230 years ago and has since documented the changes in the country's topography.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Note: The Rivian does not support Apple CarPlay; instead, it has its own device connection protocol and embedded navigation in the Rivian OS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Wiliams proposed the council writes to OS to "put an end" to "harmful policy".
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
"Right. Well, the thing is, Pathfinder has an OS update process. So we can change the software to anything we want."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
O/S voice: Please can you just say it one more time?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
O/S voice: Can you just say it one more time?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
O/S voice: Just do one take with “heinous” and without the “wonderful people.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
Photo courtesy of John Luke Venables I’ve been using Chrome O/S since the Chromium project was in beta, when I tested out the CR-48 for the Chromebook pilot testing program.
From Forbes ● May 6, 2013
It is the O/S that allows the computer to execute its commands.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
Result: when French police once got a lead into the O.S., it swiftly collapsed.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the chagrin of the search committee, word has leaked out that Criswell favored O.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, in the night of the last of February O.S. while turning to windward with this view, the Guipuscoa, Hermiona, and Espranza were separated from the admiral.
So that there seems reason to hope, that the citadel will also be in the hands of the Confederates about the 6th of August, O.S.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by George A. Aitken
D. sobrina O.S. is widely distributed in the United States and southern Canada, usually occurring in the Transitional and Upper Austral life-zones.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Charles P. Alexander
He was courteously received on January 26 o.s., and was granted an audience by the House of Commons, but the decision had already been taken and his efforts were unavailing.
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
When dealing with fluids other than serum the diluent is usually distilled water; whilst if the original substance is a solid the instructions would read: 1 gram o.s.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
"WOW rita ora really ate this look up i am fully obsessed with it!!" wrote one fan on Twitter.
From Salon ● May 2, 2023
Cobb could be a No. 3 starter for some clubs ora nice back-of-the-rotation pick-up for the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2021
“Kia ora from New Zealand,” chirps John Palethorpe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2019
The party was able to push ahead with policies to foster the Maori language and a strategy to deliver services to Maori people called whanau ora, after the native word for family.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 29, 2011
Ora pro nobis! the wave must rock our sleep; Ora, Mater, ora!
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O by Project Gutenberg
An I.N.S. photographer found McCarthy propped up in bed in blue pajamas, swathed in bandages from his tuberositas deltoidea to his ossa metacarpalia.
From Time Magazine Archive
A variety of lords, squires, generals, ossa innominata followed, for whom the Chancellor cared perhaps about as much as I did.
From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 by Various
Tarde venientibus ossa, he would have exclaimed if he had known Latin.
From Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' by José Rizal
Already at his entrance in Halle, one of the professors greeted the nineteen-year-old giant with the words, 'Quanta ossa!
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente
The diameters of the mouth were greatly lessened; but by the touch, it was evident, that the disease was confined to the alveolar processes of the two ossa maxillaria.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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