Jos

Jos

See also: jos, jós, jô, još, Jos., and Joś

English

Proper noun

Jos

1. A diminutive of the male given name Joseph
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 63, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     […] Mr. Jos had the honour of leading out the Countess of Schlusselback, an old lady with a hump back, but with sixteen good quarters of nobility and related to half the royal houses of Germany.

   • 1867, ‎William Henry G. Kingston (ed.), Taking tales for cottage homes (pages 9-10)

     Joseph Rudge and his family had for some time been living in the new hut, about twenty miles from the head station. […] "Right, Jos," said Mat Clark, his mate; […]

Proper noun

Jos

1. A city in Nigeria, the capital of Plateau State.

   Synonym: (slang) J-Town

Anagrams

• OJs

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Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of Jozef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔs/

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• Hyphenation: Jos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

Proper noun

Jos m

1. a male given name

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Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(d)ʒòs/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒàs]

Proper noun

Jòs f

1. Jos (a city in Nigeria)