S 11. The symbol for sulfur.2. The symbol for entropy.S 2abbr.1. Football safety2. Bible Samuel3. satisfactory4. Saturday5. Sports shot6. siemens7. small8. soprano9. a. southb. southern10. Baseball strike11. Sports striker12. Sundays 1 or S (?s)n. pl. s’s or S’s also ss or Ss 1. The 19th letter of the modern English alphabet.2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter s.3. The 19th in a series.4. Something shaped like the letter S.s 2abbr.1. second (unit of time)2. Mathematics second (of arc)3. stere4. strange quarkAmerican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.s (?s) or Sn, pl s’s, S’s or Ss1. (Linguistics) the 19th letter and 15th consonant of the modern English alphabet2. (Phonetics & Phonology) a speech sound represented by this letter, usually an alveolar fricative, either voiceless, as in sit, or voiced, as in dogs3. a. something shaped like an Sb. (in combination): an S-bend in a road. s symbol for (Units) second (of time) S symbol for 1. satisfactory 2. Society 3. small (size) 4. (Physical Geography) South 5. (Elements & Compounds) chem sulphur 6. (General Physics) physics a. entropyb. siemensc. strangeness 7. (Currencies) (the former) schilling 8. (Music, other) sol 9. (Chemistry) sol 10. (General Physics) sol 11. (Currencies) (the former) sucre abbreviation for (Automotive Engineering) Sweden (international car registration) Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014S, s (?s) n., pl. Ss S’s, ss s’s. 1. the 19th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. 2. any spoken sound represented by this letter. 3. something shaped like an S. 4. a written or printed representation of the letter S or s. S 1. satisfactory. 2. sentence. 3. siemens. 4. signature. 5. single. 6. small. 7. soft. 8. soprano. 9. Also, s south. 10. southern. 11. state (highway). 12. Gram. subject. S Symbol. 1. the 19th in order or in a series. 2. Biochem. serine. 3. entropy. 4. sulfur. s Symbol. second. ‘s1 , an ending used to form the possessive of most singular nouns, plural nouns not ending in s, noun phrases, and noun substitutes: man’s; women’s; James’s; witness’s (or witness’); king of England’s; anyone’s. [Middle English -es, Old English] ‘s2 , 1. contraction of is: She’s here. 2. contraction of has: He’s been there. 3. contraction of does: What’s he do for a living? ‘s3 , Archaic. a contraction of God’s: ‘sdeath; ‘sblood. ‘s4 , a contraction of us: Let’s go. ‘s5 , a contraction of as: so’s not to be late. -s1 , a suffix used in the formation of adverbs: always; betimes; unawares. [Middle English -es, Old English; ultimately identical with ‘ s1] -s2 or -es, an ending marking the third person sing. present indicative of verbs: walks; runs; plays.[Middle English (north) -(e)s, Old English (north); orig. ending of 2nd pers. singular; replacing Middle English, Old English -eth -eth1] -s3 or -es, an ending marking nouns as plural (weeks; days; minutes), occurring also on nouns that have no singular (dregs; pants; scissors), or on nouns that have a singular with a different meaning (glasses; manners; thanks); -s3 occurs with a number of nouns that now often take singular agreement, as the names of games (billiards; checkers), of diseases (measles; rickets), or of various involuntary physical or mental conditions (d.t.’s; giggles; hots; willies). A parallel set of formations, where -s3 has no plural value, are adjectives denoting mental states (bananas; crackers; nuts); compare -ers.[Middle English -(e)s, Old English -as] -s4 , a suffix of hypocoristic nouns, generally proper names or forms used only in address: Babs; Fats; Suzykins; Toodles. [probably from the metonymic use of nouns formed with -s3, as boots or Goldilocks] S. 1. Sabbath. 2. Saint. 3. Saturday. 4. schilling. 5. Sea. 6. Senate. 7. September. 8. (in prescriptions) mark; write; label. [