Usually means: Letter "S" or plural form indicator.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word ess:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. -ess, ess: Merriam-Webster
  2. -ess, -ess, ess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -ess, -ess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ess, -ess, ess: Wordnik
  6. ESS, Ess, -ess, ess: Wiktionary
  7. -ess, ess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. -ess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ess: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. -ess, ess: Dictionary.com
  11. -ess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. ESS, Ess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. -ess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. -ess, ess: MyWord.info
  15. ESS, ess: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. ess: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ess: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. ess: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -ess: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. ESS, -ess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -ess: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESS: Acronym Finder
  2. ESS: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ESS: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ess: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ess: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
noun:  Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)
verb:  To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.
noun:  (evolutionary theory) evolutionarily stable strategy
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  (software, IBM) Initialism of Enterprise Storage Server.
noun:  (electronics) Initialism of electronic switching system.
noun:  (electrical) Abbreviation of energy storage system.
noun:  Initialism of employee self-service.
noun:  Initialism of earth system science.
noun:  (statistics) Initialism of explained sum of squares.
noun:  Initialism of euthyroid sick syndrome. [A state of adaptation or dysregulation of thyrotropic feedback control wherein the levels of T3 and/or T4 are abnormal, but the thyroid gland does not appear to be dysfunctional.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of ess [The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.]

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