SS
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
Types & categories
- United States intelligence agency hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Department of Homeland Security part holonym
Sense 2 noun
special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
Types & categories
- police hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Gestapo part meronym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Department of Homeland Security |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | United States intelligence agency |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | Gestapo |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | police |