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cms

cms is the plural of cm.

Meaning of cm

Noun

CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)

  1. (Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.

Proper noun capitalized: CMS

CMS

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Chicago Manual of Style.
  2. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Charlotte Motor Speedway.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Church Mission Society (formerly Church Missionary Society).
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
    • “If the FDA grants traditional approval CMS is prepared to ensure anyone with Medicare Part B who meets the criteria is covered,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a statement.2023 June 1, Carma Hassan, “FDA-approved Alzheimer’s drugs will be covered by Medicare, with some limitations, CMS says”, in CNN
    • The notices sent to staffers in the office suggested that they contact the former director of the office if they had a complaint — but that director died late last year, Karen Shields, a former CMS executive, posted on LinkedIn on Tuesday morning.2025 April 1, Nick Valencia, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby and Sean Lyngaas, “‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies”, in CNN
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Charles Martel Society.
    • Other groups have different messages: the National Policy Institute, fronted by Richard Spencer and designed to “elevate the consciousness of whites”; the Occidental Quarterly, run by CMS member Kevin MacDonald and presenting itself as a scholarly journal; American Third Position, later rebranded...2022 May 20, Elle Reeve, “How White ‘replacement theory’ evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide”, in CNN
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Child Maintenance Service.

Noun (1) capitalized: CMS

CMS (countable and uncountable, plural CMSes or CMSs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of content management system.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of call management system.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of career management skills.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of color management system.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Conversational Monitor System.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of construction and management simulation, a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism, atom) Initialism of compact muon solenoid.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism, materials science) Initialism of carbon microsphere.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of congenital myasthenic syndrome.

Noun (2) capitalized: CMs

CMs

  1. (plural) plural of CM

Forms of cms

pluralCMSes
pluralCMSs

Questions about cms

What is cms the plural of?
Cms is the plural of cm.
What part of speech is cms?
Cms can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near cms in the dictionary

  1. cMOOCs
  2. CMOS
  3. CMP
  4. CMPs
  5. CMR
  6. cms
  7. CMSA
  8. CMSes
  9. CMSgt
  10. CMSgts
  11. CMSs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cms (page history and authors); CMS (page history and authors); CMs (page history and authors); CM (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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