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Fas
adj, name, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Initialism of free alongside ship. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Financial Assistance Scheme. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes."
- 2 A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
- 3 plural of FA form-of, plural
- 4 Initialism of Federation of American Scientists. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities)."
Noun
- 1 plural of fa form-of, plural
- 2 A border or fringe. Scotland, obsolete
- 3 Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
"She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she said it like that."
- 4 plural of FA form-of, plural
- 5 a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy wordnet
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- 6 A thing represented as being worthless. Scotland, obsolete
"Not worth a fas"
Etymology
From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.
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