ajax
/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/
ajax preposition: nearby, over there.
Preposition
ajax
- Nearby, over there
- In the bar we would stand with our sisters, varda (look at) the bona cartes (male genitals) on the butch homme (man, pronounced o-me) ajax (nearby), who, if we fluttered our ogle riahs (eye lashes) at him sweetly, might just troll over to offer a light for the unlit vogue (cigarette) clenched...1985, Peter Burton, Parallel Lives, page 38
- Oh, vada well that omee-palone ajax who just trolled in[.]2004, Paul Baker, Fanatabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, page 1
Noun (1)
ajax (plural not attested)
- A toilet.
- I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place...1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13
Noun (2)
ajax (plural not attested)
- An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ajax
Ajax
- Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
- In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...1995, David Sacks, Oswyn Murray, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11
- A male given name.
- A town in Ontario, Canada.
- In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).1994, Mike Filey, Toronto Sketches 3: The Way We Were, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 135
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ajax
Ajax
- A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
- An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…2005, Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Ajax
Ajax
- A ghost town in Utah.
- Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.1910, Forth, page 829
- An unincorporated community in South Dakota.
- Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.2000, Construction Into the Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin Expansion Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 20
- An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
- THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press, →ISBN
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
- Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.
Proper noun (4) capitalized: AJAX
AJAX
- Alternative form of Ajax.
ajax meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ajax in Hindi
- अजाक्स, एजेक्स, अजैक्स
ajax in Tamil
- அஜாக்ஸ்
ajax in Marathi
- अजाक्स, एजेक्स, अजॅक्स
ajax in Urdu
- اجیکس, اجکس, آجاکس
More languagesFewer languages
- ajax in Bengali
- অজাক্স, আজ্যাক্স, অ্যাজাক্স
- ajax in Telugu
- అజాక్స్, అజక్స్
- ajax in Malayalam
- അജാക്സ്, അജക്സ്
- ajax in Kannada
- ಅಜಾಕ್ಸ್, ಅಜಕ್ಸ್
- ajax in Punjabi
- ਏਜੈਕਸ, ਏਜੇਕਸ, ਐਜੈਕਸ
- ajax in Gujarati
- એજેક્સ, અજાક્સ, એઝાક્સ
- ajax in Odia
- ଅଜାକ୍ସ, ଏଜେକ୍ସ, ଅଜାକ୍ସ୍
- ajax in Nepali
- अजाक्स, एजेक्स, अज्याक्स
Forms of ajax
| alternative form | AJAX |
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Origin of ajax
Possibly from adjacent.
Humorous respelling of a jakes.
Phonetic similarity to ace jack.
Words formed from ajax
Phrases with ajax
Questions about ajax
- What does ajax mean?
- Ajax means nearby, over there.
- What is ajax in Hindi?
- Ajax in Hindi is अजाक्स, एजेक्स, अजैक्स. See Ajax meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ajax?
- Ajax can be a preposition, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ajax?
- Ajax is pronounced /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/.
Words near ajax in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ajax (page history and authors); Ajax (page history and authors); AJAX (page history and authors); ajax (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ajax (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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