SS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does SS mean? 

• SS (noun)
  The noun SS has 2 senses:

1. the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

2. special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps

  Familiarity information: SS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Secret Service; SS; United States Secret Service; US Secret Service; USSS

Hypernyms ("SS" is a kind of...):

United States intelligence agency (an intelligence service in the United States)

Holonyms ("SS" is a part of...):

Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security (the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Schutzstaffel; SS

Hypernyms ("SS" is a kind of...):

constabulary; law; police; police force (the force of policemen and officers)

Meronyms (parts of "SS"):

Gestapo (the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods)

 Context examples 

On the stock was engraved ‘SS. Sea Unicorn, Dundee.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, Start Point being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)