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long ess

long ess is the alternative form of long s.

Meaning of long s

Noun

long s (plural long s's)

  1. The ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character).
    • An instance lately occurred of a work so divided (a prayer-book), where the first part was printed with long s’s, and the last part with round, independent of other deviations;1824, J[ohn] Johnson, Typographia, or the Printers’ Instructor: […], volume II, London: […] Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, […], page 27

Forms of long ess

plurallong esses

Questions about long ess

What is long ess the alternative form of?
Long ess is the alternative form of long s.

Words near long ess in the dictionary

  1. long e
  2. Long Eaton
  3. long egg
  4. long eggs
  5. long eighteenth century
  6. long ess
  7. long esses
  8. long exact sequence
  9. long exact sequences
  10. long f
  11. long face

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Adapted from Wiktionary: long ess (page history and authors); long s (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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