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4-letter words (2 found)

NESS,SENS,

3-letter words (3 found)

ENS,ESS,SEN,

2-letter words (3 found)

EN,ES,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from sens according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of sens

sens esns snes nses enss ness sesn essn ssen ssen essn sesn snse nsse ssne ssne nsse snse enss ness esns sens nses snes

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Definitions and meaning of sens

sens

Noun

sens

  1. plural of sen

Anagrams

  • -ness, ESNs, NSSE, Ness, SE SN, SNES, ness

Afrikaans

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

sens (plural sense)

  1. scythe
    Synonym: seis

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Valencian) [ˈsens]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈsəns]

Preposition

sens

  1. Archaic form of sense (“without”).

Usage notes

  • This preposition has been superseded in all dialects by the form sense. Sens is nowadays only used in poetry (for metrical reasons or for a deliberately archaizing effect), and in common set phrases: sens dubte (“without a doubt”) and sens falta (“without fail”).

Derived terms

  • sens dubte
  • sens falta

Further reading

  • “sens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “sens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “sens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “sens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”), partly borrowed from Latin sēnsus (“sense, sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly from Frankish *sinn (“sense, reason, mental faculty, way, direction”) (via Vulgar Latin *sennus), from Proto-West Germanic *sinn (“mind, meaning”), particularly in the sense of "direction". Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). Compare also French assener (“to thrust out”), forcené (“maniac”). More at send.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃s/
    • The preservation of final /s/ in this term is irregular. Formerly a pronunciation without this /s/ was possible, and is still found in the expressions sens dessus dessous and sens devant derrière.

Noun

sens m (plural sens)

  1. meaning, sense
    Synonym: signification
    le sens ultime de la vie ― the ultimate meaning of life
    Les mots ont un sens. ― Words have meanings.
  2. sense, sensation
    Synonyms: perception, sensation
  3. sense, intelligence
    bon sens ― common sense
  4. direction of circulation
    voie à sens unique ― one-way street, one-way road
    en tous sens, dans tous les sens ― in all directions
Derived terms
Related terms
  • sensation
  • sensualité

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃/

Verb

sens

  1. inflection of sentir:
    1. first/second-person singular indicative present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “sens”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *senas. Cognates include Latvian sens and Lithuanian senas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsʲɛnt͡s]
  • Hyphenation: sens

Adjective

sens

  1. ancient

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • M. Bukšs, J. Placinskis (1973) Latgaļu volūdas gramatika un pareizraksteibas vōrdneica, Latgaļu izdevnīceiba, page 397

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *senas, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”). In Latvian, apparently only the adverbial form sen was conserved without interruption; in the first Latvian dictionaries, only vecs is consistently given as an adjective, whereas the occurrences of sens are few and dubious. Apparently the Latvian adjectival form of sen fell out of usage after Proto-Balto-Slavic times, and was recoined and successfully reintroduced only in the 19th century. Cognates include Lithuanian sẽnas (“old, ancient”), Sudovian sens (“old”), Old Irish sen, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs) (< *sen-ei-), Sanskrit सन (sana, “old”), Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos, “old, last year's”), Latin senex (“old in age, senior”).

Adjective

sens (definite senais, comparative senāks, superlative vissenākais, adverb sen)

  1. ancient, old, of long ago (many years, centuries, ages ago; the people of such times, their institutions, culture, etc.)
    seni laiki, tāla pagatne ― ancient times, distant past
    senā Grieķija ― ancient Greece
    senā Roma ― ancient Rome
    sens rokraksts ― ancient manuscript
    sena tradīcija ― ancient tradition
    sena valoda ― ancient language
    sens darbarīks ― ancient tool
    seni augi, dzīvnieki ― ancient plants, animals
    senie latvieši ― the ancient Latvians
    senie eģiptieši ― the ancient Egyptians
    sena cilts ― ancient tribe
  2. old (from relatively long ago; separated from the present by a (subjectively) significant amount of time)
    sena skolasbiedru draudzība ― an old schoolmate friendship
    sens paziņa ― an old acquaintance
    piedzīvojumu žanrs kinomākslā ir sens un pārbaudīts ― the adventure genre in film is old and tried

Declension

Derived terms

  • senatne

Related terms

  • sencis

References

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • senz, cens

Etymology

From Old French sens.

Noun

sens m (plural sens)

  1. sense (method for a living being to gather data about the world)
  2. sense (ability to reason)

Descendants

  • French: sens

Occitan

Pronunciation

Preposition

sens

  1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Limousin) Alternative form of sense

Noun

sens m (plural sens)

  1. (Gascony, Languedoc) sense

References

  • Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN,page 124.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • sen, san

Etymology

Partly borrowed from Latin sensus (“sense, sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly (via Vulgar Latin *sennus) from Frankish *sinn (“sense, mental faculty, way, direction”). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). More at sens.

Noun

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

  1. reason; ability to reason or think

Synonyms

  • raison

Descendants

  • Middle French: sens
    • French: sens
  • Picard: sins
  • → Middle English: sense, sence, sens
    • English: sense, sence
      • → Afrikaans: sense

Old Irish

Noun

sens m

  1. Alternative spelling of séns: alternative form of síans

Mutation

Old Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sensus. First attested in 1461–1467.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /sɛns/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /sɛns/

Noun

sens m ?

  1. reason (ability to reason)

Descendants

  • Polish: sens
  • Silesian: sens, syns

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “sens”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish sens.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛns/, /sɛw̃s/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈsɛns/
  • Rhymes: -ɛns
  • Syllabification: sens

Noun

sens m inan

  1. sense (meaning, reason, or value of something)
  2. point (purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful)
    Near-synonym: znaczenie
  3. (obsolete) thought; aphorism

Declension

Derived terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sens is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 26 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 32 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 95 times, making it the 667th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

  • sens in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sens in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sens”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “SENS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24.10.2008
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sens”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[3]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sens”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[4]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sens”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[5] (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 65

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sens, Latin sensus.

Pronunciation

Noun

sens n (plural sensuri)

  1. sense, meaning
  2. reason, logic
  3. direction

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *senas, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos. Compare Lithuanian sẽnas (“old”), Latvian sȩns (“ancient”); however, Latvian vȩcs (“old”), Old Prussian urs (“old”).

Adjective

ſenſ

  1. old
    Antonyms: iauniſ (“young”), nau (“new”)

References


Source: wiktionary.org