SS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ss"

Translingual

Symbol

SS

1. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for South Sudan.

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English

Noun

SS

1. Abbreviation of Saints.
2. Initialism of social security.
3. Initialism of spousal support.
4. Initialism of steam ship.
5. (US, Navy) Initialism of Sub Surface - diesel powered attack submarine
6. (military, rocketry) NATO prefix-code for surface-to-surface missile systems developed by the Soviet Union
7. (baseball) Initialism of shortstop.
8. (computing) Initialism of screenshot.
9. (statistics) Initialism of sum of squares.
10. Abbreviation of Schutzstaffel.
11. Screw Steamer - screw-driven steamship

Proper noun

SS

1. Abbreviation of Subsahara.

Adjective

SS (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of Subsaharan.

See also

• alimony
• (submarine): SSN, SSG, SSGN, SSB, SSBN, SSK, APSS, LPSS
• (NATO): CSS

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German

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Symbol

SS (upper case, occasionally ẞ, lower case ß or ss)

1. One of the official capital forms of ß (the other one is ẞ), or ss used in Swiss and Liechtenstein German, or once ſs (in Antiqua)

Noun

SS f

1. Abbreviation of Schutzstaffel.

Derived terms

• Reichsführer SS, Reichsführer-SS (RFSS)
• SS-Angehöriger
  • ODESSA
• SS-Mann
• SS-Offizier
• Waffen-SS

See also

• SS-Woche (Schwangerschaftswoche)
• Dutch: SS'er