ss

¹ American  

Or ss

1. (in prescriptions) a half.

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SS ² American  

1. Schutzstaffel.

2. social security.

3. steamship.

4. supersonic.

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ss. ³ American  

Or SS.

abbreviation

1. to wit; namely (used especially on legal documents, as an affidavit, pleading, etc., to verify the place of action).

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ss. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. sections.

2. Baseball. shortstop.

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SS. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Saints.

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SS. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. Schutzstaffel.

2. See ss.

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S/S ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. same size.

2. Medicine/Medical. signs and symptoms.

3. spreadsheet. Also s/s

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S.S. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) in the strict sense.

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S.S. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. Schutzstaffel.

2. steamship.

3. Sunday School.

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SS ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. a paramilitary organization within the Nazi party that provided Hitler's bodyguard, security forces including the Gestapo, concentration camp guards, and a corp of combat troops (the Waffen-SS) in World War II

2. steamship

3. Sunday school

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SS. ² British  

abbreviation

1. Saints

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SS Cultural  

1. An elite corps of combat troops (SS is short for Schutzstaffel, which is German for “protective shield”) formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and led by Heinrich Himmler. During the 1930s, Hitler steadily expanded the responsibilities of the SS to include the suppression of his political opponents within Germany and the persecution of the Jews (see also Jews). The SS supervised the concentration camps.

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Etymology

Origin of ss¹

From the Latin word sēmis

Origin of ss.³

From the Latin word scīlicet, contraction of scīre licet “it is permitted to know”

Origin of SS.⁵

From the Latin word sānctī

Origin of S.S.⁸

From Latin sēnsū strictō

Example Sentences

She ultimately settled down with Lisa Hintelmann, a former magazine editor who ss the director of talent and entertainment partnerships at Audible.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2017

Until then, they are ss screening phone calls and keeping the television turned off.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2017

M ss ng P eces has nine employees, and Kuschnir expects they all would have voted even without a day off to do it.

From Inc • Nov. 2, 2012

He demonstrated this by making an odd whistling noise, which sounded something like "s, s, ss, ss, s".

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2011

I noted a deliberate change in his accent—the softened hiss of the consonants in his words, the dental chh of West Bengali softening into the sibilant ss of the East.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee