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Jose

UK/həʊˈzeɪ/US/hoʊˈzeɪ/

Jose proper noun: a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Joseph, an anglicized spelling of Spanish José and Portuguese José.

Proper noun (1)

Jose

  1. A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Joseph, an anglicized spelling of Spanish José and Portuguese José.
    • Some Rizaliana collectors deem the blue 1959 Jose Rizal Definitive to be the most attractive Rizal stamp.2008, Lisa Mapua, Stamps of the Philippines: Historical and Topical Collections 1854–2004, →ISBN, page 125
    • Artiles, a Republican operative with a reputation for a foul mouth and sharp elbows, is accused of financing a sham candidate whose candidacy was intended to siphon votes from a legitimate Democratic candidate in a state Senate race in South Florida’s 37th District. The candidate has the same last...2021 March 18, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Audrey Ash, “Former Florida state senator charged in spoiler candidate scheme”, in CNN
  2. A surname transferred from the given name, derived from the given name.

Proper noun (2)

Jose

  1. A female given name.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: JOSE

JOSE

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, computer security) Acronym of JSON Object Signing and Encryption, a group of web standards.
    • For a JWS, the JOSE Header members are the union of the members of these values (each of which is defined in Section 2):[…]2015 May, M. Jones et al., “JSON Web Signature (JWS)”, in RFC Editor, →DOI, →ISSN, RFC 7515

Forms of Jose

alternative formJosé

Origin of Jose

From Spanish/Portuguese José, from Hebrew. Doublet of Joseph.

Originally as a diminutive form of Josephine, later also appearing as a given name.

Words formed from Jose

Phrases with Jose

12 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with Jose

Questions about Jose

What does Jose mean?
Jose means a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Joseph, an anglicized spelling of Spanish José and Portuguese José.
What part of speech is Jose?
Jose is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jose?
Jose is pronounced /hoʊˈzeɪ/ (US).

Words near Jose in the dictionary

  1. Jorō spiders
  2. jos
  3. Jos.
  4. josamycin
  5. Joscelyne
  6. Jose
  7. Jose Abad Santos
  8. Jose C. Payumo, Jr.
  9. Jose Dalman
  10. Jose P. Rizal
  11. Jose Panganiban

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jose (page history and authors); JOSE (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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