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S.O.S.

S.O.S. is the alternative form of SOS.

Meaning of SOS

Noun (1)

SOS (plural SOS's or SOSes)

  1. The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.
    • The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster.

Noun (2)

SOS (uncountable)

  1. A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence.

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Questions about S.O.S.

What is S.O.S. the alternative form of?
S.O.S. is the alternative form of SOS.

Words near S.O.S. in the dictionary

  1. S.M.A.R.T.
  2. s.o.
  3. S.O.L.
  4. S.O.P.
  5. S.O.P.s
  6. S.O.S.
  7. s.p.
  8. s.p.s.
  9. S.S.
  10. S.S.I.
  11. S.Sc.D.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: S.O.S. (page history and authors); SOS (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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