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rs

rs is the plural of r.

Meaning of r

Letter

  1. (letter, lowercase) The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
    • Except for their short, clipped accent and a certain funny some thing that they did, or rather did not do, to their r’s, they might have been born and bred on Pine Street.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part II, Chapter IV, page 210

See all 6 meanings of r

Proper noun capitalized: RS

RS

  1. (Mormonism, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Relief Society.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Rio Grande do Sul: a state of Brazil.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

Noun (1) capitalized: RS

RS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of religious studies.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of recommended standard.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of right side.
    • With yarn in back, slip stitch knitwise on RS[…]2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 41
  4. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of recruiting station.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of relationship.
  6. (alternative) Alternative form of R/S (“research ship”).

Symbol capitalized: Rs

Rs

  1. rupees
    • After a hunt lasting more than a year-and-a-half, police have arrested a couple for duping around 2 lakh people in one of India's biggest investment frauds involving an estimated Rs 1,100 crore.2012 November 13, Neeraj Chauhan, Dwaipayan Ghosh, “Couple from Maharashtra held for Rs 1,100 crore stock scam”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2022
  2. ronnasecond
  3. Queens Park Rangers FC

Noun (2) capitalized: Rs

Rs

  1. (plural) plural of R

Origin of rs

By initialism from English or other languages.

Words formed from rs

Phrases with rs

Questions about rs

What does rs mean?
Rs means rupees.
What is rs the plural of?
Rs is the plural of r.
What part of speech is rs?
Rs can be a proper noun, a noun or a symbol.

Words near rs in the dictionary

  1. RRT
  2. RRTs
  3. rruffite
  4. RRV
  5. RRVs
  6. rs
  7. RS-232
  8. RS-MMC
  9. Rs.
  10. RS:X
  11. RSA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rs (page history and authors); RS (page history and authors); Rs (page history and authors); r (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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