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Cres

Cres proper noun: a town in Croatia. Also the abbreviation of crescent.

Proper noun

Cres

  1. A town in Croatia.
  2. An island of the Adriatic Sea.

Noun capitalized: CRES

CRES (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of corrosion-resistant steel.
    • Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) SS, stainless, stainless steel

Also used as

Cres is also the abbreviation of crescent.

Synonyms of Cres

Origin of Cres

From Serbo-Croatian Cres, ultimately from Ancient Greek Χέρσος (Khérsos) from χέρσος (khérsos, “dry land”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about Cres

What does Cres mean?
Cres means a town in Croatia.
What part of speech is Cres?
Cres can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Cres in the dictionary

  1. Creque
  2. Creques
  3. Crerand
  4. Crerands
  5. crerarite
  6. Cres
  7. cres.
  8. Cresap
  9. Cresaps
  10. cresc
  11. crescence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cres (page history and authors); CRES (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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