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bas

UK/bɑːs/US/bɑs/

bas is the plural of ba.

bas is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ba.

Meaning of ba

Noun (1)

ba (plural bas)

  1. (Egyptian) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
    • Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220

Noun (2)

ba (plural bas)

  1. (colloquial, singular-normally) Father, baba.

Noun (3)

ba (uncountable)

  1. (historical, singular-normally) A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
    • The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.2011, Alistair Moffat, The Borders

See all 6 meanings of ba

Noun (1) capitalized: BAS

BAS

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of basic allowance for subsistence.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bachelor of Applied Science.
    Synonyms:
    BASc, B.A.Sc., B. A. Sc., BAppSc, B.App.Sc., B. App. Sc., BEng, B.Eng., B. Eng.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of behavioral activation system.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BAS

BAS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, Anglicanism) Initialism of Book of Alternative Services.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of British Antarctic Survey.

Noun (2) capitalized: BAs

BAs

  1. (plural) plural of BA

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bas

Bas (plural Bases)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of bas

Forms of bas

Noun
alternative formB.A.S.
alternative formB. A. S.
Proper noun
pluralBases

Origin of bas

Various origins: * Borrowed from Cebuano Bas, from bas (“sand”). * Borrowed from Catalan Bas, a habitational surname from a place in Catalonia. * Borrowed from French Bas, from bas (“low”). * Borrowed from Basque Bas, a topographic surname from baso (“wood”). * Borrowed from Slovene Baš, a short form of the personal name Sebastjan.

Phrases with bas

Questions about bas

What does bas mean?
Bas means a surname.
What is bas the plural of?
Bas is the plural of ba.
What part of speech is bas?
Bas can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bas?
Bas is pronounced /bɑːs/ (UK).

Words near bas in the dictionary

  1. Barça
  2. barège
  3. barèges
  4. Baré
  5. Barí
  6. bas
  7. bas mitzvah
  8. bas mitzvahs
  9. bas relief
  10. bas reliefs
  11. bas-

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bas (page history and authors); BAS (page history and authors); BAs (page history and authors); Bas (page history and authors); ba (page history and authors). 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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