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asp

UK/ɑːsp//æsp/

asp noun: a water snake. Also the initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament.

Noun (1)

asp (plural asps)

  1. (archaic) A water snake.
  2. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
    Synonyms:
    asp viper, European asp, aspis viper
  3. The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
  4. (figuratively) An evil person; a snake.
    • 'Two thousand years ago did thou and I and that Egyptian asp rest therein, but since then have I not set foot here, nor any man, and perchance it has fallen,' and, followed by the rest of us, she passed up a vast flight of broken and ruined steps into the outer court, and looked round into the...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  5. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
  6. (Southern US) The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched.
    1. (Southern US, broadly) Any caterpillar which inflicts a sharp pain when their hair is touched.

Noun (2)

asp (plural asps)

  1. An aspen tree.

Noun (3) capitalized: ASP

ASP (plural ASPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of application service provider.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of average selling price or (more rarely) average sale(s) price.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of ammunition supply point.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, accessibility) Initialism of accessibility / assistance / accompaniment service provider.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of answer set programming.

Proper noun capitalized: ASP

ASP

  1. A customised pistol produced by this company until 1987.
  2. A telescopic baton manufactured by this company.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Active Server Pages.
  4. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of American Solidarity Party.

Also used as

asp is also the initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament.

asp meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

asp in Hindi

एएसपी

asp in Tamil

ஏஎஸ்பி

asp in Marathi

एएसपी

asp in Urdu

اے ایس پی
More languagesFewer languages
asp in Bengali
এএসপি
asp in Malayalam
എ. എസ്. പി
asp in Punjabi
ਏ. ਐੱਸ. ਪੀ
asp in Gujarati
એએસપી
asp in Nepali
एएसपी

Synonyms of asp

  • asp viper
  • European asp
  • aspis viper

Forms of asp

pluralasps
pluralASPs

Plural of asp: asps

Origin of asp

From Middle English aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare Middle English aspide.

From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-West Germanic *aspu, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp-. See also Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp; also Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs (“fir”), Latvian apse, Polish osa, Old Armenian ոփի (opʻi, “poplar”).

Words formed from asp

Words that rhyme with asp

Questions about asp

What does asp mean?
Asp means a water snake.
What is asp in Hindi?
Asp in Hindi is एएसपी. See Asp meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is asp?
Asp can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce asp?
Asp is pronounced /ɑːsp/ (UK).
What is the plural of asp?
The plural of asp is asps.

Words near asp in the dictionary

  1. ASOs
  2. ASOT
  3. Asotin
  4. Asotin County
  5. ASOTV
  6. asp
  7. AsPac
  8. aspacochioside
  9. aspafilioside
  10. aspalathus
  11. aspalathuses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: asp (page history and authors); ASP (page history and authors); asp (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asp (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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