vis
/vɪs/
vis noun: force; energy; might; power. Also the abbreviation of viscount.
Noun (1)
vis (plural vires)
- Force; energy; might; power.
Proper noun capitalized: Vis
Vis
- A town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It has a population of 1,934 residents (as of 2011)
- An island of the Adriatic Sea.
Noun (2) capitalized: VIs
VIs
- plural of VI
Also used as
vis is also the abbreviation of viscount.
vis is also the alternative spelling of viss.
vis is also the clipping of visual.
vis is also the clipping of visualize.
vis is also the clipping of visualization.
vis is also the clipping of visibility.
vis meaning in Marathi and Nepali
vis in Marathi
- विस
vis in Nepali
- विस
Examples of vis in a sentence
- I talked with my vis-à-vis in the French embassy.
- He was seated vis-à-vis the president.
- There was an expression of halalization as the support of Malays vis-à-vis the Chinese through consumption.
Forms of vis
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | vires |
| plural | visses |
| plural | vises |
| Adjective | |
| alternative form | viz |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | vises |
| present participle | vising |
| past participle | vised |
| past | vised |
Origin of vis
Borrowed from Latin vīs.
From Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse).
From Serbo-Croatian Vis, from Italian Lissa.
Words formed from vis
Phrases with vis
Words that rhyme with vis
Questions about vis
- What does vis mean?
- Vis means force; energy; might; power.
- What is vis in Marathi?
- Vis in Marathi is विस. See Vis meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is vis?
- Vis can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce vis?
- Vis is pronounced /vɪs/.
- What is the plural of vis?
- The plural of vis is vires.
Words near vis in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vis (page history and authors); Vis (page history and authors); VIs (page history and authors); vis (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vis (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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