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es

es is the alternative form of ess.

es is the alternative form of e's.

es is the pronunciation spelling of is.

es is the pronunciation spelling of as.

Meaning of ess

Noun

ess (plural esses)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter S/s.
    • these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / the ess / were the sounds / of success1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
  2. Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)

See all 5 meanings of ess

Meaning of is

Verb

is

  1. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.
    • There is three of them there.

Noun (1)

es (plural eses)

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter С / с.

Proper noun capitalized: ES

ES

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Espírito Santo: a state of Brazil.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of ECMAScript.
    • Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the...2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 41
    • Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 652

Noun (2) capitalized: ES

ES (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of environmental science.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of emergency services.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of engineering sample.
  4. (Philippines, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of elementary school.
  5. (Philippines, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of executive secretary.

Noun (3) capitalized: Es

Es

  1. (plural) plural of E

Forms of es

pluralesses
pluraleses

Origin of es

From e + -s.

Words formed from es

Phrases with es

Questions about es

What does es mean?
Es means the name of the Cyrillic script letter С / с.
What is es the alternative form of?
Es is the alternative form of ess.
What part of speech is es?
Es can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of es?
The plural of es is esses.

Words near es in the dictionary

  1. Erzurum
  2. Erzya
  3. Erzyan
  4. Erzyans
  5. Erzyas
  6. es
  7. es-
  8. eS/VTOL
  9. eS/VTOLs
  10. esa
  11. ESAD

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: es (page history and authors); ES (page history and authors); Es (page history and authors); ess (page history and authors); is (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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