Meanings
es1
plural esses
- alternativeAlternative form of ess (the name of the Latin script letter S/s) in compounds such as "es-hook".
es2
- alternativerareAlternative form of e's.
es3
- pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of is.
es4
- pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of as.
‘How about thet reward you got comin’, Ben?’ Peter murmured. ‘Seems es if th’ boy was too much for you, don’t it? Or do you figger you deserve your pay?’
1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 274
es5
ES6
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Espírito Santo: a state of Brazil.
- abbreviationinitialismcomputer languagesInitialism of ECMAScript.
Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.
2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 6522 more examples
Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and the exceedingly helpful ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table.
2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 41If you open the tsconfig.json file in the project root folder, you can check which ES version is used in building your application and which ES version is used to target your browser.
2019, Jack Xu, Practical Multiple-Page Apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular Elements: Building Modern Multiple-Page Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular Elements, WebPack, RXJS, and Mini-SPAs, New York, N.Y.: UniCAD Publishing, →ISBN, page 31
- abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of environmental science.
- abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of emergency services.
- abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of engineering sample.
- PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of elementary school.
Es7
- pluralplural of E
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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es. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/es
“es.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/es. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “es,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/es.
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