Tess
/tɛs/
Tess proper noun: a diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
Proper noun (1)
Tess
- A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
- Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139
Proper noun (2)
Tess (plural Tesses)
- A surname from German.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: TESS
TESS
- Initialism of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program.
- The dedicated time Cheops spent observing the star helped astronomers iron out the mixed signals from the TESS data to determine how many planets were crossing in front of the star and the resonance of their orbits.2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN
Forms of Tess
| plural | Tesses |
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Origin of Tess
Borrowed from German Tess, a variant of Tesch.
Words formed from Tess
Words that rhyme with Tess
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- 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
Questions about Tess
- What does Tess mean?
- Tess means a diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
- What part of speech is Tess?
- Tess is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Tess?
- Tess is pronounced /tɛs/.
Words near Tess in the dictionary
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