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cass

cass verb: to render moot or void; to annul; to reject. Also the abbreviation of cassette.

Verb

cass (third-person singular simple present casses, present participle cassing, simple past and past participle cassed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render moot or void; to annul; to reject
    • […] Do therefore, with Advice and Consent aforesaid, Cass, Annul and Discharge all Oaths whatsoever, by which any of Our Subjects are incapacitated or disabled from holding Places, or Offices in Our said Kingdom […]1687 James II/VII of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland Declaration of Indulgence

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Cass

Cass

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Cassandra of medieval origin, later also used for Cassidy, Cassiopeia, and Catherine with its variant forms.
    • Most of the time, Anne Marie and Kathleen got along as well as any sisters six years apart would: Kathleen called Anne Annie, and Anne Marie called Kathleen Cass or Kate.1999, Ann Rule, And Never let Her Go, Warner Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 30
    • “Ah, the charming Miss Cassiopeia Montgomery.” Monsieur Solage bowed over her hand with perfect aplomb. “How fortunate I am today. I have found myself in the company of the two most lovely ladies in Bath.” Athena stifled the urge to roll her eyes. Just when he had started to seem interesting, he...2001, Catherine Blair [pseudonym; K. Noelle Gracy], Athen’s Conquest (A Zebra Regency Romance), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 42
  2. A surname originating as a matronymic.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. A diminutive of the male given name Cassius.
  5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States.
  6. A census-designated place in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.
  7. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Cass Township.
  8. A locality in Selwyn District, Canterbury, New Zealand, named after Thomas Cass.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: CASS

CASS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cockpit access security system.

Also used as

cass is also the abbreviation of cassette.

cass meaning in Telugu and Punjabi

cass in Telugu

కాస్

cass in Punjabi

ਕੈਸ

Forms of cass

third-person singular presentcasses
present participlecassing
past participlecassed
pastcassed

Origin of cass

From Middle English cassen, from Old French casser, from Late Latin cassō, from Latin cassus (“empty, hollow”), and perhaps influenced by quassō (“to shake, shatter”).

* As an English surname, from a pet form of Cassandra. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Cais (“descendant of the curly-haired one”), from cas (“curly”).

Words formed from cass

Questions about cass

What does cass mean?
Cass means to render moot or void; to annul; to reject.
What is cass in Telugu?
Cass in Telugu is కాస్. See Cass meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is cass?
Cass can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of cass?
The past tense of cass is cassed.

Words near cass in the dictionary

  1. casques
  2. casquetel
  3. casquetels
  4. CASREP
  5. CASREPs
  6. cass
  7. Cass County
  8. Cass Lake
  9. cassaba
  10. cassabanana
  11. cassabananas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cass (page history and authors); Cass (page history and authors); CASS (page history and authors); cass (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cass (Punjabi, 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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