us — meaning in English

English meaning

• hood noun A loose covering for the head, often part of a jacket or coat.
• ness noun A headland or promontory jutting out into the sea, often used as part of place names.
• ship noun A large vessel built to carry people or cargo across water.

Senses

us is used for these senses in English:

• hood A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.
• ness Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of being (the adjective)", "the quality of being (the adjective)", or "the measure of being (the adjective)".
• ship Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, time spent in a role, or a specialised union. In particular, the way a set of social duties associated with a particular role shapes or develop's one's character.

hood — full definition

1. noun A loose covering for the head, often part of a jacket or coat.
2. noun The hinged panel covering a car engine (called a "bonnet" in British English).
3. noun Informal: a neighbourhood, especially a poor or inner-city one.
4. verb To cover something with a hood.

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