S vs Bowery - What's the difference?
s | bowery |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
* 1906 , , "Fate and the Apothecary," in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories ,
(archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 65,
* Bancroft
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a proper noun bowery is
a street and a district of new york city, whose residents were traditionally of a low social and economic class (usually the bowery).As an adjective bowery is
(us|dated) characteristic of this street; swaggering; flashy.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}bowery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.
Noun
(boweries)- His estate, or bowery , as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.
- The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations
