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Definition: Lass |
LassNoun1. A girl or young woman who is unmarried. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LASS | English | Lighter-than-air submarine simulator | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LassSynonyms: jeune fille (n), lassie (n), young girl (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden. |
Poverty | Phrase: zonam perdidit; "a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree"; a pobreza no hay verguenza; "he that is down can fall no lower"; poca roba poco pensiero; "steeped.. in poverty to the very lips"; "the short and simple annals of the poor". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lass |
| English words defined with "lass": Lasslorn ♦ Trull ♦ Whiting-mop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lass": Dying Sayings ♦ Hallelujah Lass ♦ Jordeloo ♦ Morther ♦ TIB. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lass": Bonnilass. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lass" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (load). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because you're a lad and I'm a lass! (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) If it be a lass, name her after my love, Mary McGregor (Rob Roy; writing credit: Alan Sharp) : Uh, no lass, you must be mistaken (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) Perfect hair, such a lovely lass. Nice round breasts and a firm young (Xena: Warrior Princess; writing credit: Serge Rodnunsky) | |
Lyrics | Milo Venus was a beautiful lass (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lass mich am Sonntag nicht allein (1959) A Lass in Alaska (1948) The Lass of the Lumberlands (1916) A Lancashire Lass (1915) The Lass o' Killikrankie (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Woman watching sunset" by Adam Brown Commentary: "My lass (chimp) watching the sun go down." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Since there is a lass, try to see the lass |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Lass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.41% of the time. "Lass" is used about 283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.41% | 270 | 17,892 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.83% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.41% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 283 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lass" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lass | Last name | 1,000 | 15,445 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lass": anchor wind lass ♦ bonny lass ♦ farm lass ♦ Love lass ♦ wind lass. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "lass": bee-lass, first-lass. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lass | 43 | jpg lass | 3 |
caracas lass | 11 | lass lovely | 3 |
boris lass lass lass leon mark mark | 10 | adam lass | 3 |
barbara lass | 8 | aughrim lass | 3 |
hein lass | 6 | japanese lass picture sexy | 3 |
irish lass | 5 | jucken kumpel lass | 3 |
lass scottish | 5 | lactating lass | 2 |
bare foot lass | 5 | lass nude | 2 |
bonnie lass | 5 | lad lass | 2 |
lass vegas | 5 | martin lass | 2 |
lass yonder | 4 | lass small | 2 |
lass matt | 4 | lass solway | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | meisie (girl, wench), dogter (daughter, girl, wench). (various references) | |
Albanian | vajzë (babe, chicken, child, colleen, damsel, daughter, demoiselle, female, gal, girl, girlie, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, petticoat, puss, unmarried girl, wench). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتاة (babe, baby, bird, bud, filly, gill, girl, maid, nymph, pigeon, wench, young woman), معشوقة (girl), حبيبة (babe, grain, granule, pellet, sweetheart). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | севда, мома (damsel, maid, maiden, virgin), момиче (bint, gal, girl, muslin, number, piece, pigeon, wench), любима (girl friend, inamorata, ladylove, lassie, love, lover, mistress, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, true love), девойка (adolescent, damsel, girl, maid, maiden, young lady). (various references) | |
Catalan | noia (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Chinese | 少女 (Girlish, Girlishly), 女孩 (girl). (various references) | |
Czech | dìvèe (baby, colleen, girl, lassie, maiden, wench). (various references) | |
Danish | pige (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Dutch | meisje (bride, fiancée, girl, wench), meid (girl, maid, servant, wench). (various references) | |
Esperanto | knabino (girl). (various references) | |
Faeroese | genta (girl, Miss, spinster, unmarried woman, wench). (various references) | |
Farsi | زن جوان (Dell, Puss), دختر (Daughter, Gal, Girl, Girlie, Maid, Quean, Sissified, Sissy, Wench). (various references) | |
French | fille. (various references) | |
Frisian | famke (girl, wench). (various references) | |
German | Mädchen (colleen, female, girl, girlie, girls, lassie, maid, maiden, maids, slavey, wench, wenches). (various references) | |
Greek | κορίτσι (girl, lassie). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | vajzë (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלמה (damsel, maid, maiden, young woman), בחורה (girl, maiden, wench), ריבה (damsel, girl, maiden, wench), צעירה (young girl, young woman), נערה (girl, kitten, lassie, maid, maiden). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leány (colleen, gal, gill, girl, job, maiden, skirt), lány (bint, daughter, fille, gal, girl, girly, maiden, wench, wool), kedvese valakinek. (various references) | |
Icelandic | stelpa (girl, wench), stúlka (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Indonesian | anak perempuan (daughter, girl). (various references) | |
Irish | cailín (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Italian | ragazza (gal, girl, girl friend, maid, missy, Moll, wench), piccola (girl, small, wench). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 小娘 (adolescent female, young girl). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こむすめ (adolescent female, young girl). (various references) | |
Korean | 소녀. (various references) | |
Lombard | tosa (daughter, girl, wench). (various references) | |
Manx | caillin (colleen, girl, maid, waitress, young woman), caillag (flapper, girl, very young woman), bwoirrinagh (cow, crumpet, doe, female, female any age, girl, wench). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ungjente, pike (girl, wench), jente (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Papiamen | mucha mohé (girl, wench), chek (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | moça (backfish, colleen, female, gal, girl, maid, may, peat, she, wench, young woman, youngling), rapariga (damsel, girl, maiden, petticoat, wench), garota (cissy, girl, girlie, lassie, pussycat, wench). (various references) | |
Romanian | servitoare (charwoman, daily, girl servant, help, housemaid, maid, maid servant, maid-of-all-works, servant, slavey), iubitã (flame, girl, lady, lady love, mistress, paramour, sweetheart), fatå (daughter, girl, wench), fatã (child, chit, damsel, daughter, girl, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, puss, skirt, virgin). (various references) | |
Russian | девушка (a bit of muslin, bint, colleen, demoiselle, dish, gal, girl, lady, lassie, maid, maiden, puss, quean, wench). (various references) | |
Scottish | caileag (girl, little girl, wench). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | snajka, draga (beloved, honey, ladylove, tootsy), curica (sissy). (various references) | |
Spanish | muchacha (colleen, gal, girl, lassie, Molly, wench). (various references) | |
Swedish | tös (girl, girlie, maid, wench), flicka (cobble, damsel, gal, girl, mend, Miss, patch, patch up, she, wench). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bátang babáe (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Thai | เด็กสาว (lassie), สาวคนรัก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kiz (daughter, girl, wench), kız arkadaş (girl, girlfriend, lassie, popsy, popsy-wopsy, steady), kız (babe, bird, bunny, chick, chicken, colleen, daughter, female, gal, girl, Jenny, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, queen, wench). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | служниця (girl, maid, maidservant, parlourmaid), кохана (beloved, concubine, girl friend, inamorata, ladylove, love, lover, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie), дівчина (adolescent, celibate, colleen, demoiselle, doll, gal, girl, maiden, wench). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cô gái (may, wench). (various references) | |
Welsh | llances (adolescent, young woman), geneth (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ch'uupal (girl, wench). (various references) | |
Zulu | intombi (girl, wench), intombazane (girl, wench). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | puella, puera. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lass": lasses, lassie, lassies, lassitude, lassitudes, lasso, lassoed, lassoer, lassoers, lassoes, lassoing, lassos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lass": class, cutlass, declass, eyeglass, fiberglass, fibreglass, gallowglass, glass, hourglass, interclass, isinglass, misclass, nonclass, outclass, plateglass, sandglass, spyglass, subclass, sunglass, superclass, underclass, weatherglass, windlass, wineglass. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lass": anticlassical, classed, classer, classers, classes, classic, classical, classicalities, classicality, classically, classicism, classicisms, classicist, classicistic, classicists, classicize, classicized, classicizes, classicizing, classico, classics, classier, classiest, classifiable, classification, classifications, classificatory, classified, classifieds, classifier, classifiers, classifies, classify, classifying, classily, classiness, classinesses, classing, classis, classism, classisms, classist, classists, classless, classlessness, classlessnesses, classmate, classmates, classroom, classrooms, classy. (additional references) | |
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"Lass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aass, altsys, lacs, lals, las, lasa, lasb, lasc, lases, lasest, lasi, lasm, lassi, lasst, lassu, lassy, lasx, lats, lauss, laxs, laz, Lesc, lessa, lessl, lezs, Liass, lis, lisc, lisq, lissy, Lizs, ljas, lls, lms, ls, lsa, lsase, luscs, Luss, lusus, luzs, lyases, vlas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lass" (pronounced la"s) |
| 3 | l a" s | alas, class, glass, last. |
| 2 | -a" s | amass, ass, bass, bras, brass, chasse, crass, gas, grass, harass, impasse, mass, Masse, morass, pass, Ras, repass, sass, surpass, Tass. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sals. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: als, ass, las, sal. | |
-2 letters: al, as, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: class, glass, lases, lasso, lasts, lyssa, sails, sales, salps, salsa, salts, sauls, seals, sials, sisal, slabs, slags, slams, slaps, slash, slats, slaws, slays. | |
+2 letters: aisles, assail, assoil, awless, balsas, basils, bassly, blasts, clasps, classy, clasts, dossal, easels, flasks, glassy, glossa, hassel, hassle, lapses, lapsus, lasers, lashes, lasses, lassie, lassos, leases, leasts, lyases, lyssas, missal, nasals, passel, plasms, psalms, rassle, sables, salads, salals, saleps, salmis, salols, salons, salpas, salsas, salves, salvos, saults, scalds, scales, scalls, scalps, selahs, selvas, sepals, shales, shauls, shawls, sheals, shoals, silvas, sisals, skalds, skoals, slacks, slakes, slangs, slants, slates, slaves, smalls, smalts, snails, snarls, solans, spails, spales, spalls, splash, splats, splays, stales, stalks, stalls, steals, sulfas, swails, swales, sylvas, tassel, teslas, tussal, usuals, valses, vassal. | |
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