ss
or ss
(in prescriptions) a half.
Origin of ss
1Other definitions for SS (2 of 9)
social security.
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to wit; namely (used especially on legal documents, as an affidavit, pleading, etc., to verify the place of action).
Origin of ss.
3Other definitions for ss. (4 of 9)
sections.
Baseball. shortstop.
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Saints.
Origin of SS.
5Other definitions for SS. (6 of 9)
See ss.1
Other definitions for S/S (7 of 9)
Other definitions for S.S. (8 of 9)
(in prescriptions) in the strict sense.
Origin of S.S.
8Other definitions for S.S. (9 of 9)
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How to use ss in a sentence
The logic here was a little unsound—if I remember the S.S. Titanic story, “Iceberg” would have been the right name.
The Kandel family has survived Kristallnacht intact, and Eric had boarded the S.S. Gerolstein to New York.
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Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S. Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl.
Pipette end with the remainder of the specific serum labelled s.s.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry Eyre
Yes; there was plenty to go into before Samuel put down his foot, and who knew better how to go into it than S.S.?
Reginald Cruden | Talbot Baines ReedMr. Clarkson is come, and is about to take me down to Parndon (Mr. S.s country seat in Essex, about twenty miles from town).
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (of 2) | Samuel Taylor ColeridgeYou have read S.s poetry and know that the fancy displayed in it is sweet and delicate to the highest degree.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) | Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWe had a melancholy letter to-day, with an account of poor Mr. S.s death.
Up the Country | Emily Eden
British Dictionary definitions for SS (1 of 2)
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
steamship
Sunday school
Origin of SS
1British Dictionary definitions for SS. (2 of 2)
Saints
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Cultural definitions for SS
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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