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

Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of Jozef.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɔs/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Jos
  • Rhymes: -ɔs

Proper noun

Jos m

  1. a male given name

Hausa

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

Proper noun

Jòs f

  1. Jos (a city in Nigeria)
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