kiss
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
Verb 3 meanings
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
“The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.”
Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
Noun 4 meanings
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
Etymology
From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”).
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KISS at a glance
KISS has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (K 5 + I 1 + S 1 + S 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,529 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with kiss
All rhymesOne letter away
- KIDS9
- MISS6
- KITS8
- DISS5
- HISS7
- KISH11
- KOSS8
- KINS8
- KIST8
- KIPS10
- WISS7
- SISS4
- KIRS8
- KIFS11
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