"Bass" meaning in English

See Bass in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /bæs/ Audio: en-us-bass.ogg
enPR: băs Rhymes: -æs Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bass
  1. A surname.
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  2. A place name:
    A rural town in Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia, named after George Bass.
    Categories (place): Places in Australia, Places in Victoria, Australia, Towns in Australia, Towns in Victoria, Australia Derived forms: Bass Coast, Bass Strait Related terms: Bass Lake
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  3. A place name:
    A number of places in the United States:
    An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama.
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  4. A place name:
    A number of places in the United States:
    An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas.
    Categories (place): Places in Arkansas, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Arkansas, USA
    Sense id: en-Bass-en-name-62o9gzIx Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 1 10 10 10 16 16 16 0 2 1 2 1 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 17 17 17 0 2 1 2 0 9 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 14 14 14 19 19 20
  5. A place name:
    A number of places in the United States:
    An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
    Categories (place): Places in Kentucky, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Kentucky, USA
    Sense id: en-Bass-en-name-BJ5XfcRa Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 1 10 10 10 16 16 16 0 2 1 2 1 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 17 17 17 0 2 1 2 0 9 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 14 14 14 19 19 20
  6. A place name:
    A number of places in the United States:
    An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
    Categories (place): Places in Missouri, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Missouri, USA
    Sense id: en-Bass-en-name-MnOC3KVJ Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 1 10 10 10 16 16 16 0 2 1 2 1 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 17 17 17 0 2 1 2 0 9 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 14 14 14 19 19 20
  7. A place name:
    A number of places in the United States:
    An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, named for the presence of bass (fish) in the local creek.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.