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Definitions and meaning of as

as

Translingual

Symbol

(metrology) Symbol for attosecond, an SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹⁸ seconds.
(metrology) arcsecond

Etymology 1

From Middle English as, als(a), alswa, from Old English eallswā (“just so; as”), thus representing a reduced form of also. Compare German Low German as, German als, Dutch als.

Pronunciation

(stressed) IPA^(key): /æz/
Rhymes: -æz
(unstressed) IPA^(key): /əz/

Adverb

as (not comparable)

To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).
- 1865, The Act of Suicide as Distinct from the Crime of Self-Murder: A Sermon
- 1937, Tobias Matthay, On Colouring as Distinct from Tone-inflection: A Lecture (London: Oxford University Press)
(dated) For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)
- 1820, John Strype, The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith (page 48)
  Likewise many other indulgences were by virtue hereof granted; as, to have a portatile altar, to receive the Sacrament privately; […]
- 1913, "Aboriginal", in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
  First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.

Derived terms

as I live and breathe

Translations

Conjunction

In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
- 2001, Jason Manning, Mountain Honor, Signet Book (→ISBN):
  "But he's good as dead, and I ain't about to waste a bullet."
1. Used after so or as to introduce a comparison.
2. Used to introduce a result: with the result that it is.
  - 1868, Proceedings and Debates of the [New York] Constitutional Convention Held in 1867 and 1868 in the City of Albany, page 2853:
    [...] that the Board of Regents had fallen into disrepute; that intelligent men inquired what the board was; he said that it was a quiet body, and kept out of the newspapers — and so quiet as to lead many to suppose tho board had ceased to exist.
  - 2006, Eric Manasse, The Twenty-First Man, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 7:
    It was a talent he had developed; he could actually be so quiet as to be practically invisible. In class, he was rarely called upon to answer any questions. In the crowded hallways, he could slip in and out without offending any of the local bullies ...
  - 2011, Herwig C. H. Hofmann, Gerard C. Rowe, Alexander H. Türk, Administrative Law and Policy of the European Union, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 507:
    Under most circumstances, it will be possible to draw a distinction sufficiently clear as to allow an unambiguous allocation to one or other category.
3. Expressing concession: though.
  - 1843 (first published), Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essays
    We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited.
  - 2009, Matthew Friedman, Laurie B. Slone, J Friedman, After the War Zone (→ISBN):
    If this happens, be patient and, difficult as it may be, try not to take these reactions personally.
At the time that; during the time when:
1. At the same instant or moment that: when.
2. At the same time that, during the same time when: while.
3. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
Being that, considering that, because, since.
(dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive, or with the verb elided): as though, as if. [to 19th century]
- I start as from some dreadful dream.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts 2:
  And sodenly there cam a sounde from heven as it had bene the commynge off a myghty wynde […]
- c. 1616, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI part 2, First Folio 1623, I.1:
  Oft haue I seene the haughty Cardinall, / More like a Souldier then a man o'th' Church, / As stout and proud as he were Lord of all […]
Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun: that, which, who. (See usage notes.) [from 14th c.]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
  Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
  
  And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit,
  
  As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
- 1854 Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book I, Chapter II:
  ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’
  ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, page 99:
  “If I had, if I could hold me head up with the better folk, perhaps I'd think again, but I don't reckon as that's very likely now.”
(rare, now England, Midland US and Southern US, possibly obsolete) Than.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain
  The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors.

Usage notes

Use of as as a relative conjunction meaning "that" dates to late Middle English and was formerly common in standard English, but is now only standard in constructions like "the same issue as she had" or "the identical issue as the appellant raised before"; otherwise, it is informal, found in the dialects of the Midland, Southern, Midwestern and Western US; and of Lancashire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, East Anglia, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Surrey, and Cornwall; sometimes in Durham, Westmorland, Yorkshire and Somerset; only rarely in Northumberland and Scotland; and only in certain set phrases in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Devon.

Alternative forms

-'s (contracted form)

Synonyms

(expressing concession): albeit, although; see also Thesaurus:even though
(at the same time that): while, whilst; see also Thesaurus:while
(being that): given that, seeing that; see also Thesaurus:because

Derived terms

as much as
much as

Translations

Preposition

Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
In the role of.
- 2000, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast, St. James encyclopedia of popular culture, volume 2, page 223:
  Directed by Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starred Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei and Jane Russell as Dorothy.
by way of
I bought you a new toy as a special treat.

Usage notes

The object in older English may appear, and it may be prescribed as appearing, in the nominative case, similar to than, eg. You are not as tall as I. In modern everyday English, this may seem pedantic.

Derived terms

as-built

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin as. Doublet of ace.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæs/
Homophone: ass

Noun

as (plural ases or asses)

(unit of weight) A libra.
Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.

Translations

Etymology 3

a +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeɪz/

Noun

plural of a (compare with aes)

Usage notes

There is some difference of opinion regarding the use of apostrophes in the pluralization of references to letters as symbols. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

Etymology 4

Shortening of as hell or as fuck.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæz/ (never unstressed)

Contraction

(slang) As hell or as fuck; very much; extremely.
You killed him? That's metal as, girl.

References

as at OneLook Dictionary Search
as in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

S&A, S. A., S.A., SA, Sa, s.a.

Achumawi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ʌs/

Noun

water

References

Bruce E. Nevin, Aspects of Pit River phonology (1998) (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics)

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /as/

Etymology 1

From Dutch as, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.

Noun

as (plural asse, diminutive assie)

ash
ashes

Etymology 2

From Dutch as, from Proto-Germanic *ahsō.

Noun

as (plural asse, diminutive assie)

axle
axis

Etymology 3

From Dutch als

Conjunction

if
when

Preposition

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illās.

Article

as pl

Usage notes

The form las, either pronounced as las or as ras, can be found after words ending with -a.

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈas/
Rhymes: -as

Etymology 1

From Latin as (“basic Roman unit of money”).

Noun

as m (plural asos)

(games) An ace. (the side of a die with a single pip)
(card games) An ace. (a card with a single pip, usually of highest rank in a suit)
(figuratively, sports) An ace. (an expert)
(historical, metrology) An as or a libra. (Roman unit of weight)
(historical, numismatics) An as (Roman unit of money).

Derived terms

as de guia (“bowline knot”)
sempre un sis o un as (“a handicap or a problem”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse áss, singular of æsir (“the Norse gods”).

Noun

as m (plural asos)

(mythology) One of the Æsir.

Etymology 3

Contraction

(dialectal) Contraction of the preposition a with the salty article es.

Synonyms

al (“contraction of a and el”)

Etymology 4

Noun

plural of a

Cimbrian

Etymology

Confer German als, English as. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

(Sette Comuni) if

References

“as” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic ás.

Noun

as c (singular definite asen, plural indefinite aser)

one of the Æsir

Inflection

Noun

as n (singular definite asset, plural indefinite asser)

A-flat (A♭)

Inflection

Verb

imperative of ase

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑs/
Hyphenation: as
Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch asche, from Old Dutch *aska, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.

Cognate with Low German Asch, German Asche, English ash, West Frisian jiske, Danish aske, Swedish aska.

Noun

as f (plural assen, diminutive asje n)

ash
ashes

Alternative forms

asch (obsolete)
asse

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: as
Berbice Creole Dutch: asi
Negerhollands: haschěsis, hassesje, assche, ašiši, hašiši, haši, babaši, aschies, assisje, az

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch asse, from Old Dutch *assa, from Proto-Germanic *ahsō.

Noun

as f (plural assen, diminutive asje n)

axis
axle

Derived terms

cardanas
draaias
hoofdas
krukas
symmetrieas
trapas
windas

Descendants

Afrikaans: as
Negerhollands: az
→ Indonesian: as
→ Papiamentu: as (dated)

Etymology 3

Conjunction

(The Hague dialect) Alternative spelling of als

Preposition

(The Hague dialect) Alternative spelling of als
(The Hague dialect) eive ... as: as ... as

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese as, from Latin illās.

Article

as f pl (singular a, masculine o, masculine plural os)

feminine plural of o

Finnish

Etymology

From German As (German key notation).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑs/, [ˈɑs̠]
Rhymes: -ɑs
Syllabification: as

Noun

(music) A-flat

Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

Compounds

as-aiolinen
as-doorinen
As-duuri
as-fryyginen
As-jooninen
as-lokrinen
As-lyydinen
As-miksolyydinen
as-molli

Anagrams

French

Etymology 1

From Latin as.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑs/
Rhymes: -as

Noun

as m (plural as)

ace (card of value 1)
ace (expert or pilot)
as (Roman coin)

Derived terms

as des as
plein aux as

Descendants

→ German: As, Ass
- → Hungarian: ász
→ Vietnamese: át

Etymology 2

From the verb avoir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a/
Homophones: à, a
Rhymes: -a

Verb

second-person singular present indicative of avoir

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin axis.

Noun

as m

axis
board

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese as, from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɐs/

Article

as f pl (feminine singular a, masculine singular o, masculine plural os)

(definite) the

Usage notes

The definite article o (in all its forms) regularly forms contractions when it follows the prepositions a (“to”), con (“with”), de (“of, from”), and en (“in”). For example, con as ("with the") contracts to coas, and en as ("in the") contracts to nas.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

accusative of elas

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aːs/
Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

as n

(music) A flat

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈas]
Hyphenation: as

Etymology 1

From Dutch as (“axis, axle”), from Middle Dutch asse, from Old Dutch *assa, from Proto-Germanic *ahsō.

The sense of propeller shaft is a semantic loan from Javanese [Term?].

Noun

as (first-person possessive asku, second-person possessive asmu, third-person possessive asnya)

axis, axle
Synonym: sumbu
(dialect) propeller shaft in fishing boat.

Etymology 2

From Dutch aas (“ace”), earlier ase, from Middle Dutch aes, from Old French as, from Latin as.

Semantic loan from English ace for meaning other than card with a single spot.

Noun

as (first-person possessive asku, second-person possessive asmu, third-person possessive asnya)

ace:
1. card with a single spot.
2. (tennis) point scored without the opponent hitting the ball.
3. (golf) a hole in one.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ass, a (“out of”) (compare Scottish Gaelic à), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (compare Latin ex).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /asˠ/
(Munster) IPA^(key): /ɑsˠ/
(Aran) IPA^(key): /æsˠ/ (as if spelled eas)

Preposition

as (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

out of
from (a place)
off

Inflection

Derived terms

See also Category:Irish phrasal verbs with particle (as)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ass.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /asˠ/
(Munster) IPA^(key): /ɑsˠ/
(Aran) IPA^(key): /æsˠ/ (as if spelled eas)

Pronoun

as (emphatic as-san)

third-person masculine singular of as (from, off, out of)

Derived terms

as féin (“alone”)

Adverb

off (in or into a state of non-operation or non-existence: of a machine, light, etc.)
out (in or into a state of non-operation or non-existence: of a fire, etc.)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Old Irish as (“shoe, slipper”)

Noun

as m (genitive singular asa, nominative plural asa)

(literary) shoe

Declension

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

as m (genitive singular asa)

(literary) milk

Declension

Mutation

Latgalian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈas/
Hyphenation: as

Pronoun

Archaic form of es.

References

Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35

Latin

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Etruscan: cf. lībra and nummus, also loanwords. Original meaning was 'a rectangular bronze plaque weighing a pound'.

Alternative forms

assis
𐆚 (symbol)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /aːs/, [äːs̠] or IPA^(key): /as/, [äs̠]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /as/, [äs]
Note: the word is singularly and unreliably attested in poetry, but together with its derivatives usually measures long. It's more likely that it retained the geminate consonant before a vowel than that the vowel itself was lengthened. Most recent dictionaries give it as short, but EDL and certain other etymologists as long; cf. far.

Noun

as m (genitive assis); third declension

an as; a Roman coin originally made of bronze and weighing one pound, but later made of copper and reduced to two ounces, one ounce, and eventually half an ounce.
1. a penny, a copper (a coin of low value)
pound as a unit of weight
any undivided unit of measurement
1. (with ex) a whole estate
a circular flap or valve
any circular object; a slice, disk (also of the moon)

Usage notes

It is especially significant as being the coin of least value in the Classical age; as such it was often used in poetry as representative of the idea of worthlessness - one example being in Vivamus atque amemus, where Catullus mentions "valuing opinions of old men at a single as". Two and a half asses equalled a single sesterce.

Declension

The genitive plural is normally assium, but assum is found in Varro.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

sēmis
bes, des
tressis
nōnussis
decussis

Descendants

Catalan: as
Old French: as
- Middle French: as
  - French: as (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: aes
  - Dutch: aas
    - Afrikaans: aas
- → Middle English: as
  - English: ace (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: ace
- →? Italian: asso
Portuguese: ás, asse
Spanish: as
→ English: as
→ Polish: as

References

“as” on page 196 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
“as” in volume 2, column 744, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ās”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ocus (“and", originally "proximity”), from Proto-Celtic *onkus-tus, from *onkus (“near”).

Conjunction

References

Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ocus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Etymology 1

Reduction of alswo, alswa, also, from Old English eallswā. The reduced form is more common in this sense from c. 1200.

Alternative forms

ase, os

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /as/

Conjunction

Descendants

English: as
Scots: as

References

“as, conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French as (“ace”), from Latin as, assis (“as (Roman coin)”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aːs/

Noun

(dice games) ace (single spot on a die)
(dice games) The lowest possible throw in dice.
(figuratively, by extension) bad luck

Descendants

English: ace (see there for further descendants)
Scots: ace

References

“ās, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Movima

Verb

to sit

Navajo

Alternative forms

Interjection

oh: expressing surprise

Norman

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

as m (plural as)

(Jersey, card games) ace

Etymology 2

Verb

(Guernsey) second-person singular present indicative of aver

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From asa (“to swell”) and asa (“to struggle”).

Noun

as n (definite singular aset, indefinite plural as, definite plural asa)

fermentation
unrest, noice

Verb

imperative of asa and ase

References

“as” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /as/

Verb

second-person singular present indicative of aver

Old French

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

as m (oblique plural as, nominative singular as, nominative plural as)

a score of one on a die

Descendants

Middle French: as
- French: as (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle Dutch: aes
- Dutch: aas
  - Afrikaans: aas
→ Middle English: as
- English: ace (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: ace

Etymology 2

Contraction

Alternative form of als ("to the")

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

second-person singular present indicative of avoir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

ass (Etymologies 2 and 3)
es (Etymology 2)

Etymology 1

Verb

as (triggers lenition in a direct relative clause and eclipsis in an indirect relative clause)

third-person singular present indicative relative of is

Usage notes

Like modern Irish is, this form can be used with the comparative degree of an adjective to form a predicative construction where English would use an attributive construction:

c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^c21

Etymology 2

Pronoun

third-person singular masculine of a (“out of”)

Etymology 3

Noun

as n (genitive ais)

milk
- c. 775, Táin Bó Fraích from the Book of Leinster, published in Táin bó Fraích (1974, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Wolfgang Meid, line 164

Inflection

Mutation

Old Prussian

Pronoun

as (plural mes)

I, the first-person singular pronoun

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”).

Noun

ās m (declension unknown)

god
the runic character ᚨ (/a/ or /aː/)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German als, Dutch als, English as.

Conjunction

as
As ich des Poscht schreib...
As I write this post...
than
but

Pronoun

(relative) which
(relative) who
Leit as nix zu duh hen
People who have nothing to do

Polish

Etymology

From French as, from Latin as, from Old Latin *ass, probably from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /as/

Noun

as m anim

(card games) ace

Declension

Noun

as m pers

ace (skilled pilot)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese as, from Latin illās (with an initial l having disappeared; compare Spanish las).

Pronunciation

Homophones: ás (Brazil), às (Brazil), hás (Brazil), az (Brazil)
Hyphenation: as

Article

feminine plural of o

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:o.

Pronoun

as f pl

(third person personal) them (as a direct object; the corresponding indirect object is lhes; the form used after prepositions is elas).

Synonyms: las, nas

Usage notes

As becomes -las after verb forms ending in -r, -s, or -z, the pronouns nos and vos, and the adverb eis; the ending letter causing the change disappears.
After ver:

After pôr:

After fiz:

After nos:

After eis:
Becomes -nas after a nasal diphthong: -ão, -am [ɐ̃w̃], -õe [õj̃], -em, -êm [ẽj̃].
In Brazil it is being abandoned in favor of the nominative form elas.
Eu as vi. → Eu vi elas. = "I saw them.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:as.

Noun

as m

plural of a

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian as, ase, asa, als, alse, alsa, equivalent to al +‎ so. More at as.

Adverb

Conjunction

Scottish Gaelic

Particle

Creates the superlative when preceding the comparative form of an adjective or an adverb.
glic (“wise”) → as glice (“wisest”)

mòr (“big”) → as motha (“biggest”)

Usage notes

Only used in the present and future tenses. In the past tense and the conditional mood, a bu and a b' are used.
Lenites initial f if followed by a vowel:
fuar → as fhuaire

Related terms

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Semai *ʔɑs, from Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔas ~ *ʔəs (“to swell”). Cognate with Koho as, Khasi at, Pacoh ayh, Riang ʔas¹.

Adjective

swollen

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German As, from Latin as (“as, copper coin”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /âs/

Noun

ȁs m (Cyrillic spelling а̏с)

(card games, sports) ace

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /áːs/

Noun

ȃs m anim

(card games) An ace; in a game of cards.
An ace; somebody very proficient at an activity.

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ās.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈas/, [ˈas]
Homophones: has, haz (non-Castilian)

Noun

as m (plural ases)

(card games) an ace (in a game of cards)
an ace, a hotshot (somebody very proficient at an activity)
an as#Noun (a Roman coin)

Derived terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑːs/
Rhymes: -ɑːs

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German âs.

Noun

as n

Carrion, carcass (of an animal killed by a predator).
(slang, derogatory) An inconsiderate or otherwise contemptible person.

Declension

Derived terms

asätare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Icelandic ás.

Noun

as c

One of the Æsir, a Norse God.

Declension

Synonyms

asagud

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English arse.

Noun

buttocks, backside
bottom, base
reason, meaning, motivation
beginning, source

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish آص‎ (as), from Proto-Turkic *argun, *āŕ.

Noun

as (definite accusative ası, plural aslar)

ermine
Synonyms: kakım, ermin
(dialectal) weasel

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French as. Note that in Ottoman Turkish until its end – though it be that playing cards had been introduced in Turkey by Europeans and French in particular – the card was called بك‎ (bey). Apparently this usage switch is a function of the Law on the Abolishment of Nicknames and Titles from the 26th of November 1934 (Lâkap ve Unvanların Kaldırılması Hakkındaki Kanun).

Noun

as (definite accusative ası, plural aslar)

(card games) ace

Coordinate terms

Etymology 3

Verb

second-person singular imperative of asmak

Volapük

Preposition

as (ays, äs)

Wagi

Noun

woman

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian as, ase, asa, als, alse, alsa, equivalent to al +‎ so. More at as.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/, /as/

Conjunction

if, provided that
as, like (used to form an equating phrase)
than

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian *ax, from Proto-Germanic *ahsō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/

Noun

as c (plural assen, diminutive aske)

axis
axle (of a car)

Wolof

Article

a small (singular diminutive indefinite article)

Usage notes

Precedes the noun.

Source: wiktionary.org

a Norse god living in Asgard.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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Definitions and meaning of as

as

Translingual

Symbol

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adverb

Derived terms

Translations

Conjunction

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Alternative forms

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Translations

Preposition

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Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Translations

Further reading

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

See also

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Contraction

References

Anagrams

Achumawi

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Conjunction

Preposition

Aragonese

Etymology

Article

Usage notes

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Contraction

Synonyms

Etymology 4

Noun

Cimbrian

Etymology

Conjunction

References

Danish

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Noun

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