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fas

fas is the plural of fa.

Noun (1)

fas (plural fases)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A border or fringe.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) A thing represented as being worthless.
    • Not worth a fas

Meaning of fa

Noun

fa (plural fas)

  1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
    • And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe...1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew]...
    1. Sometimes syllable for both the tonic and the fourth.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: FAS

FAS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Financial Assistance Scheme.
    • In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes.2016, Fang Yanping, Singapore Teachers: Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment, page 26
  2. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Federation of American Scientists.
    • FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities).2023 September 5, Julian Borger, Andrew Roth, “Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024
  3. (Malaysia, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Federation Air Service.
  4. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Free African Society.

Noun (2) capitalized: FAS

FAS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome.
    • She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she...2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 17

Adjective capitalized: FAS

FAS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of free alongside ship.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: FAs

FAs

  1. (plural) plural of FA

Noun (3) capitalized: FAs

FAs

  1. (plural) plural of FA

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Fas

Fas

  1. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Forms of fas

pluralfases

Origin of fas

From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.

Phrases with fas

Questions about fas

What does fas mean?
Fas means a border or fringe.
What is fas the plural of?
Fas is the plural of fa.
What part of speech is fas?
Fas can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of fas?
The plural of fas is fases.

Words near fas in the dictionary

  1. Farzad
  2. Farzads
  3. Faröe
  4. faröelite
  5. faröelites
  6. fas
  7. fas est et ab hoste doceri
  8. Fasano
  9. Fasanos
  10. FASB
  11. fasc

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