SMS

• S.M.S., S. M. S.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Abbreviation

SMS (countable and uncountable, plural SMSes)

1. (uncountable, telecommunications) Initialism of short message service: a system enabling cell phones to send or receive text messages .
   1. (countable) A text message sent using this system.

      Synonym: text

2. (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
3. Initialism of salesman sample.
4. (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.
5. (neurology) Initialism of stiff man syndrome.

   Synonym: SPS

6. Abbreviation of safety management system: a system designed to identify and manage occupational safety and health risks.

SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone.

   I SMSed him and asked why he was late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

SMS

1. (video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.

From German SMS.

SMS (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical, initialism) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;

   Coordinate terms: HM, HMS, HBMS, HSMS, HSwMS, HDMS, HDaMS, HNLMS, HNMS, HNoMS

   Coordinate terms: SM, Zr.Ms., Hr.Ms.

   1. A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)

      Synonym: HIGMS

• MSS, MSS., MSs, Mss, Mss., SSM, mss, mss.

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SMS

1. Misspelling of sms.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.mɛs/ ~ /e.se.mɛs/

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SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS, text, text message

   Synonym: (France) texto

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsʔɛmˈʔɛs/ (official standard)

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsɛˈmɛs/, /-se-/, /-zɛ-/, /-ze-/ (common speech, for Etymology 1)

SMS f or n (strong or mixed, genitive SMS, plural SMS or SMSen or SMSe)

1. SMS (text message)

• The noun is almost exclusively feminine in northern Germany, central Germany, and Luxembourg. The neuter gender is predominant in the southern half of the language area, but the feminine is also heard.
• The unchanged plural SMS is generally used with the neuter gender. The form SMSe is rarer.
• With the feminine, the marked form SMSen is often needed to express the plural, but the unchanged form can be used when the plural is evident from the grammatical construction or the context.

• S. M. S.

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship)

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

• English: SMS

Initialism of Short Message Service.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛmɛʃ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

SMS (plural SMS-ek)

1. SMS, text message (a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system)

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	SMS	SMS-ek
accusative	SMS-t	SMS-eket
dative	SMS-nek	SMS-eknek
instrumental	SMS-sel	SMS-ekkel
causal-final	SMS-ért	SMS-ekért
translative	SMS-sé	SMS-ekké
terminative	SMS-ig	SMS-ekig
essive-formal	SMS-ként	SMS-ekként
essive-modal	SMS-ül	SMS-ekül
inessive	SMS-ben	SMS-ekben
superessive	SMS-en	SMS-eken
adessive	SMS-nél	SMS-eknél
illative	SMS-be	SMS-ekbe
sublative	SMS-re	SMS-ekre
allative	SMS-hez	SMS-ekhez
elative	SMS-ből	SMS-ekből
delative	SMS-ről	SMS-ekről
ablative	SMS-től	SMS-ektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	SMS-é	SMS-eké
non-attributive possessive - plural	SMS-éi	SMS-ekéi

Possessive forms of SMS
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	SMS-em	SMS-eim
2nd person sing.	SMS-ed	SMS-eid
3rd person sing.	SMS-e	SMS-ei
1st person plural	SMS-ünk	SMS-eink
2nd person plural	SMS-etek	SMS-eitek
3rd person plural	SMS-ük	SMS-eik

SMS m

1. SMS (text message)

SMS(エスエムエス) • (esu-emu-esu) 

1. SMS

• 伝言(でんごん) (dengon)

• sms

Orthographic borrowing from English SMS.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ɛmˈɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: S‧M‧S

SMS m animal or m inan (related adjective SMS-owy)

1. (countable) SMS, text message (brief electronic message sent between mobile phones)

   Synonyms: es, esek, esemes, eska

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) short message service (system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones)

• SMS in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• SMS in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English SMS.

SMS m or f (invariable)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

   Synonyms: mensagem de texto, (Brazil) torpedo

Borrowed from English SMS.

SMS n (plural SMS-uri)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

• mesaj SMS, mesaj scurt

• IPA^(key): /ˌese ˌeme ˈese/ [ˌe.se ˌe.me ˈe.se]

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. (telecommunications) SMS

• “SMS”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28