English

Adjective

Pres

1. President (used as a title written before a president's name)

Synonyms

• Pres.

Noun

Pres

1. (law) Abbreviation of preserve.
2. (law) Abbreviation of preservation.

Usage notes

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.

Anagrams

• pers, pers.
• reps
• RESP

English

Noun

pres

1. Abbreviation of presentation.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *pretja, from Proto-Indo-European *per- ‎(“to strike, beat”) (compare Ancient Greek πρίω ‎(príō, “to saw”), Lithuanian per̃ti ‎(“to flog, beat with besom”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(pərət, “strife”)).

Verb

pres ‎(first-person singular past tense preva, participle prerë)

1. I cut, I carve, I slice

Derived terms

• mbres

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *pratja, from Proto-Indo-European *prat- (compare Dutch vroed ‎(“wise, clever”), Lithuanian pràsti ‎(“to understand”)).

Verb

pres ‎(first-person singular past tense prita, participle pritur)

1. I wait; I expect

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin prensus, from prehensus.

Verb

pres

1. past participle of prendre

Noun

pres m ‎(plural presos, feminine presa)

1. prisoner

Old French

Preposition

pres

1. manuscript form of prés

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English press.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prês/

Noun

prȅs m ‎(Cyrillic spelling пре̏с)

1. (uninflected) press (collective term for journalists)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• press

Noun

pres m ‎(plural preses)

1. press (exercise)

Synonyms

• prensa