adj
Meaning 1
Proud; conceited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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Standard Lemma guide
fess
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/fɛs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Lively; active; strong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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adj
Meaning 3
Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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name
Meaning 4
A surname from German.
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noun
Meaning 5
A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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Broader terms: ordinary
noun
Meaning 6
Initialism of functional endoscopic sinus surgery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
Meaning 7
To confess; to admit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 8
(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fesse
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Broader terms: ordinary
History
Etymology
From German Fess, a variant of Feese.
From Middle English fesse, from Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Cognate with fajita, fascia, and fascism.
Clipping of confess.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: balk — band
- Catalan: faixa — band
- Czech: břevno — band
- Dutch: faas — band
- Finnish: hirsi — band
- French: fasce — band
- Galician: faixa — band
- German: Balken (fess) — band
- German: Leiste — band
- Hungarian: pólya — band
- Italian: fascia — band
- Polish: pas — band
- Portuguese: faixa — band
- Romanian: fașă — band
- Spanish: faja — band
- Swedish: bjälke — band