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• ss
  ss

  (in prescriptions) a half.
• SS
  SS

  Schutzstaffel.
• 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.

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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

A sharp, but friendly criticism of this central point of his linguistic philosophy may be found in Steinthal, Charakteristik der Hauptsächlichsten Typen des Sprachbones, ss. 58-61.

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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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

Baur, Symbolik und Mythologice thl. ii. absch. ii. cap. ss. 394-404.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Dosis a scrup. ss. ad drachmam dimidiam semel vel bis die.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

Denk. n. s. w. heft vii. ss. 41-72. does not teach that from the instant of death the fate of the wicked is irredeemably fixed.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville