Kiss

Quick meaning: Kiss is a verb meaning (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.

Meaning

(transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
2. (reciprocal) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
3. (transitive, archaic) To treat with fondness.
4. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
5. 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.
6. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
7. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.

Example Sentences

His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.

I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.

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.

Word Forms

• kisses
• kissing
• kissed
• kist

Synonyms for kiss

Depending on context, synonyms include buss, goozer, lallygag, osculate, pash, smooch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include osculate, buss, osculation, brush, kisser, shagging.

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