SMS
/ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/
SMS is the initialism of short message service.
SMS is the initialism of special mint set.
SMS is the initialism of salesman sample.
SMS is the initialism of Smith-Magenis syndrome.
SMS is the initialism of short man syndrome.
SMS is the initialism of stiff man syndrome.
Meaning of short message service
Proper noun
short message service
- The system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones.
- Synonyms:
- SMS
Meaning of Smith-Magenis syndrome
Noun
Smith-Magenis syndrome (uncountable)
- A microdeletion syndrome characterized by intellectual disability, facial abnormalities, difficulty sleeping, and behavioral problems such as self-harm.
- Synonyms:
- SMS
Noun (1)
SMS (countable and uncountable, plural SMSes or SMSs)
- A text message sent using the short message service.
- The Empower Interactive survey found that more than 7 of 10 cellphone users considered any form of unsolicited SMSs, or text messages, unacceptable.2004 July 5, Nicola Clark, “Wireless: Consumers seek help in cutting mobile spam”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06...
- Synonyms:
- text
Verb
SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed or SMS'd)
- To send a message on a cell phone via short message service.
- I SMSed him and asked why he was late.
- I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.
- Synonyms:
- text
Noun (2)
SMS (uncountable)
- SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;
- A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)
Noun (3) capitalized: SMs
SMs
- plural of SM
Synonyms of SMS
Forms of SMS
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | S.M.S. |
| alternative form | S. M. S. |
| Noun | |
| plural | SMSes |
| plural | SMSs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | SMSes |
| present participle | SMSing |
| past participle | SMSed |
| past | SMSed |
| past participle | SMS'd |
| past | SMS'd |
Origin of SMS
Abbreviation of short message service.
Borrowed from German SMS.
Words formed from SMS
Words that rhyme with SMS
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
- second-guess
Questions about SMS
- What does SMS mean?
- SMS means a text message sent using the short message service.
- What is SMS the initialism of?
- SMS is the initialism of short message service.
- What part of speech is SMS?
- SMS can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce SMS?
- SMS is pronounced /ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/.
- What is the plural of SMS?
- The plural of SMS is SMSes.
Words near SMS in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: SMS (page history and authors); SMs (page history and authors); short message service (page history and authors); Smith-Magenis syndrome (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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