noun · rare

cess

cess · cesses

An assessed tax, duty, or levyAn assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.

/sɛs/

» A good example of homonyms in Portuguese are the words "sessão", "seção" and "cessão".

Meaning

6 senses

(India, Ireland, UK)An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
(Ireland, UK, informal)Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
(obsolete)Bound; measure.
(dialectal, obsolete)A bog, in particular a peat bog.
(dialectal, obsolete)A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.

Examples

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A good example of homonyms in Portuguese are the words "sessão", "seção" and "cessão".
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Origin

For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a bo

For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a borrowing from Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), likely from Latin census.

Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”. According to the OED, from earlier suspiral (“water pipe, setting tank”).

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