SS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ss"

Translingual

Symbol

SS

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for South Sudan since 2011.

   Synonym: SSD (alpha-3)

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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, astronautics) 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. Initialism of Schutzstaffel.
11. Initialism of Segawa syndrome.
12. Initialism of screw steamer. (a screw-driven steamship)

Proper noun

SS

1. Initialism of Subsahara.
2. (fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sword and Shield.

Adjective

SS (not comparable)

1. Initialism of Subsaharan.

Synonyms

• (Pokémon): SwSh

See also

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

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German

Pronunciation

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Symbol

SS (upper case SZ, 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.
2. Abbreviation of Schwangerschaft.

Alternative forms

(Schutzstaffel):

• SS.

Pronunciation

(Schutzstaffel):

• IPA^(key): [ˌɛs.ˈʔɛs]
• Hyphenation: SS

Derived terms

(Schutzstaffel):

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

(Schwangerschaft):

• SS-Woche (Schwangerschaftswoche)

Noun

SS n

1. Abbreviation of Sommersemester.

Coordinate terms

• WS (Wintersemester)

See also

(Schutzstaffel):

• SA
• Dutch: SS'er

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Japanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa̠ido̞sɨᵝto̞ːɾʲiː]

Noun

SS(サイドストーリー) • (saidosutōrī) 

1. Abbreviation of サイドストーリー.