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ids

/aɪ diː ɛs/

ids is the plural of id.

Meaning of id

Noun (1)

id (plural ids)

  1. The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
    • "There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Noun (2)

id (plural ids)

  1. Identifier.

See all 6 meanings of id

Noun (1) capitalized: IDS

IDS (countable and uncountable, plural IDSs or IDSes)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, Unicode) Initialism of ideographic description sequence.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of intrusion detection system.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of infant-directed speech.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of infectious disease specialist.

Proper noun capitalized: IDS

IDS

  1. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Iain Duncan Smith.

Noun (2) capitalized: IDs

IDs

  1. (plural) plural of ID

Verb capitalized: IDs

IDs

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of ID

Forms of ids

pluralIDSs
pluralIDSes

Phrases with ids

Questions about ids

What is ids the plural of?
Ids is the plural of id.
What part of speech is ids?
Ids can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ids?
Ids is pronounced /aɪ diː ɛs/.
What is the plural of ids?
The plural of ids is IDSs.

Words near ids in the dictionary

  1. idropranolol
  2. Idrovo
  3. Idrovos
  4. IDRs
  5. idryo
  6. ids
  7. IDSes
  8. IDSF
  9. IDSs
  10. IDST
  11. Idsworth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ids (page history and authors); IDS (page history and authors); IDs (page history and authors); id (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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