Dictionary

long s en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character).
   • The Bible itself was quite unknown ground until I was ten and stumbled upon the Apocrypha in an old edition of the Bible printed with long s’s and beautiful early type. 1914, Una Hunt, Una Mary: The Inner Life of a Child, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 43:
   • An instance lately occurred of a work so divided (a prayer-book), where the first part was printed with long s’s, and the last part with round, independent of other deviations; 1824, J[ohn] Johnson, Typographia, or the Printers’ Instructor: […], volume II, London: […] Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, […], page 27:
   • He liked me to come into his dressing-room to talk to him while he lathered his face, and I remembered the lie I told him when he asked me if I had used the top of his silver shaving-pot to knock in a nail, and the day when he asked me to read him Burke’s speeches aloud in an edition printed with long s’s. 1914, George Moore, ‘Hail and Farewell!’: Vale, London: William Heinemann, page 311:

Forms

Coordinates

terminal s · trailing s · double S · short s · insular s · eszett · round s · sharp s

Hypernyms

s

Relateds

ς · σ

Synonyms

tall s · descending s · medial s

Translations (16)

bg дълго s (the character ſ) · fr s long (the character ſ) · sv långt s (the character ſ) · de s longa (the character ſ) · it esse lunga (the character ſ) · es s larga (the character ſ) · de Lang-s (the character ſ) · pt s longo (the character ſ) · pl długie s (the character ſ) · ru длинное s (the character ſ) · ru среднее s (the character ſ) · fi pitkä s (the character ſ) · br s hir (the character ſ) · ru начальное s (the character ſ) · eo longa s (the character ſ) · de langes s (the character ſ)