English

Initialism

SMS

1. Short Message Service, a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system.
2. (video games) Sega Master System.
3. (numismatics) special mint set
4. (psychology) short man syndrome
5. (military, nautical) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German

Noun

SMS ‎(plural SMSes)

1. A text message sent on a cell phone.

Translations

Verb

SMS ‎(third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone.

   I SMSed him and asked why he is late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

Synonyms

• text

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

Anagrams

• MSS., Mss, Mss., SSM

Dutch

Pronunciation

Initialism

SMS

1. Misspelling of sms.

French

Initialism

SMS

1. SMS

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsʔɛmˈʔɛs/ (official standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsɛˈmɛs/, /-se-/, /-zɛ-/, /-ze-/ (common speech, for Etymology 1)

Etymology 1

Noun

SMS f, n ‎(genitive SMS, plural SMS or SMSen or SMSe)

1. SMS (text message)

Usage notes

• The noun is almost exclusively feminine in northern Germany, central Germany, and Luxembourg. The neuter gender is predominant in the southern half of the language area, but the feminine is also heard.
• The unchanged plural SMS is generally used with the neuter gender. The form SMSe is rarer.
• With the feminine, the marked form SMSen is often needed to express the plural, but the unchanged form can be used when the plural is evident from the grammatical construction or the context.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• S. M. S.

Initialism

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship)

Usage notes

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

Hungarian

Etymology

Initialism of Short Message Service.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛmɛʃ]

Noun

SMS ‎(plural SMS-ek)

1. SMS (a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system)

Declension

Japanese

Noun

SMS ‎(katakana エス・エム・エス, romaji esu emu esu)

1. SMS

Synonyms

• 伝言 (でんごん) ‎(dengon)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English SMS.

Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Synonyms

• mensagem de texto, torpedo