Kiss

/kɪs/ · 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..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.

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

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

I kissed a girl and I liked it / The taste of her cherry chapstick / I kissed a girl just to try it / I hope my boyfriend don't mind it

The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.

His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.

Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.

Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss, / Kiss, kiss; and make her a bower / All of flowers, and drop me a flower, / Drop me a flower.

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Antonyms for kiss

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Word Forms

• kisses
• kissing
• kissed
• kist

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