dess

See also: deß and dess.

English

Noun

dess (plural desses)

  1. Obsolete form of dais.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛsː/

Adverb

dess

  • the (With a comparative or more and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.)
  1. Dess sterkare, dess betre.
    The stronger, the better.

Synonyms

References

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dexswos.

Adjective

dess

  1. right (side, as opposed to left)
  2. south

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

References

  • “dess” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Swedish

Pronoun

dess

  1. (possessive) its (3rd person singular inanimate common and neuter genitive)
  2. At a specific given timen

Declension

Noun

dess ?

  1. (music) D-flat
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