kiss
Forms
- present (v1)
- kiss
- past (v2)
- kissed
- past participle (v3)
- kissed
- present participle
- kissing
- 3rd person singular
- kisses
- Plural
- kisses
Definitions
1.To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
- He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
2.To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
- His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.
- Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.
- The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.
3.Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
- I want to kiss Tom.
- Tom tried to kiss Mary.
1.A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
2.The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
3.An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
4.A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2116
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”).