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    ss
    (in prescriptions) a half.
  • SS
  • ss.
    ss.
    abbreviation
    to wit; namely (used especially on legal documents, as an affidavit, pleading, etc., to verify the place of action).
  • SS.
    SS.
    abbreviation
    Saints.
  • S/S
    S/S
    abbreviation
    same size.
  • S.S.
    S.S.
    abbreviation
    (in prescriptions) in the strict sense.

ss

1 American  
Or ss
  1. (in prescriptions) a half.


SS 2 American  
  1. Schutzstaffel.

  2. social security.

  3. steamship.

  4. supersonic.


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).


ss. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. sections.

  2. Baseball. shortstop.


SS. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. Saints.


SS. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. Schutzstaffel.

  2. See ss.


S/S 7 American  

abbreviation

  1. same size.

  2. Medicine/Medical. signs and symptoms.

  3. spreadsheet. Also s/s


S.S. 8 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) in the strict sense.


S.S. 9 American  

abbreviation

  1. Schutzstaffel.

  2. steamship.

  3. Sunday School.


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

"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

SS. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Saints

"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

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.


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

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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

“Let’s see, where were we?” ss “Harry was about to use his cloak.”

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

In 1916, the Canadian ship SS Mount Temple was sunk by a German ship.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

SS: No. I think my favorite part of watching people interact with the pieces is what they bring to it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

I executed a couple of full-power stops from highway speeds—tires chirping, brake pedal chattering—and our SS slowed up, hard, straight and true.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Mengele was a doctor who served in Germany's Waffen SS.

From BBC May 15, 2026

To do so, they created an elite teenage division of the Waffen-SS, called the 12th SS Panzer Grenadier Hitlerjugend Division, or SS-HJ.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Local Government Act 1888, ss. 50-63, contains provisions for the alteration of local areas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

No. 55 of 1893, ss. 175-187; British Columbia, Revised Statutes, 1897, c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

Werke, Bd. vi, ss. 45-6, 92-5, 254-5, by a careful comparison of which passages his real intent will become apparent.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

New Castle county, ss., the State of Delaware to Wm.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

See also, ss. 389-95, for a review of the interpretation of the great Shaksperian roles by German actors like Schröder and Fleck.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

“Your place is with the victims of the SS. The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2016

Sirs: I should like to know your authority for the abbreviation SS. for Saints.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I can see you don't believe me. But it's true. The British. They're rounding up the SS. We are free."

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Sbaralea puts forth doubts as to the authenticity of this privilege, the text of which he gives; wrongly, I think, for Clara alludes to it in her will, A. SS., p.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton

From the searches I have made upon this question, it seems to me that these SS. are taken as a short way of expressing the "SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS" of the Salisbury liturgy and ritual.

From Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various

In S/S ’12 Supreme made a shirt eerily similar.

From The New Yorker Jun. 1, 2017

The prosthetic legs Lee designed for me to wear to open his S/S 99 show were on display in the Cabinet of Curiosities.

From The Guardian Dec. 20, 2015

He's also the face of Prada's S/S 2013 campaign.

From The Guardian Apr. 7, 2013

Next door, Rei Kawakubo designed the unusual scenography for "Comme des Garçons, White Drama," which showcases her all-white S/S '12 collection ensconced in large-scale bubble formations.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2012

Browns: 40 years of fashion inspiration Models Eva Herzigova in Mark Fast S/S 09 and Claudia Schiffer in Erdem S/S 07 Photograph: Helen Seamons/Observer In fashion circles, Browns is a heavyweight name.

From The Guardian May 18, 2010

In the late 1920s, Ronald Knox and S.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

You wouldn’t have to grind your teeth when India overlooks Payal Kapadia’s dreamy “All We Imagine As Light” or S.S.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

"The study reveals where in the chain the greatest risks lie. It can be a tool to counteract illegal logging," says Caroline S.S.

From Science Daily Oct. 26, 2023

But the ending is different for the S.S.

From New York Times May 15, 2023

I’ll never forget that tall, lonely figure standing on the sea wall The S.S.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

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