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ons

ons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of on.

Meaning of on

Verb

on (third-person singular simple present ons, present participle oning or onning, simple past and past participle oned or onned)

  1. (Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, colloquial, transitive) To switch on.
    • Can you on the light?
    Synonyms:
    turn on

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: ONS

ONS

  1. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Office for National Statistics.
    • The government’s statistics agency said suits[…] were not bought often enough to make it into the basket of 733 representative goods and services selected to measure the UK’s cost of living. They have been replaced in the ONS basket with a “formal jacket or blazer”.2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian
    • The ONS has been building up a new index, the “transformed labour Market Survey”, to replace the LFS. But repeated twists and tweaks mean it may not be ready to launch until 2027.2024 December 23, Heather Stewart, “‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter?”, in The Guardian

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ons

Ons

  1. A female given name from Arabic.
    • Ons Jabeur has criticised Roland Garros for snubbing women’s tennis, saying “I don’t think they have daughters”.2025 May 28, PA Media, “Ons Jabeur hits out at lack of women’s matches in French Open primetime slots”, in The Guardian

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Questions about ons

What does ons mean?
Ons means a female given name from Arabic.
What is ons the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of on.
What part of speech is ons?
Ons is a proper noun.

Words near ons in the dictionary

  1. onrush
  2. onrushed
  3. onrushes
  4. onrushing
  5. onry
  6. ons
  7. Onsagerian
  8. Onsagerism
  9. Onsagerist
  10. Onsagerists
  11. ONSC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ons (page history and authors); ONS (page history and authors); Ons (page history and authors); on (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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