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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025 boss1 /bɔs, bɑs/USA pronunciation
n. [ countable ] a person who employs or superintends workers:He was my boss for four years. Government a politician who controls a party organization:the boss of the South Side. a person who is in charge: Who's the boss in this house? v.
to be master of or over;[ ~ + object] to order around in an unfriendly and arrogant way: [ ~ + object + around] She likes to boss her kids around. [~ + [ around + object] to boss around the kids.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025 boss1
(bôs, bos),USA pronunciation n.
a person who employs or superintends workers; Government a politician who controls the party organization, as in a particular district.a person who makes decisions, exercises authority, dominates, etc.:My grandfather was the boss in his family. v.t.
to be master of or over; to order about, esp. in an arrogant manner. v.i.
to be boss. to be too domineering and authoritative. adj.
chief; Slang Terms first-rate. Dutch baas master, foreman 1640–50, American . 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged supervisor, head, foreman, chief, superintendent, administrator, overseer.boss2
(bôs, bos),USA pronunciation n.
Botany a protuberance or roundish excrescence on the body or on some organ of an animal or plant.Geology a knoblike mass of rock, esp. an outcrop of igneous or metamorphic rock.an ornamental protuberance of metal, ivory, etc.; Architecture
Architecture an ornamental, knoblike projection, as a carved keystone at the intersection of ogives.Architecture a stone roughly formed and set in place for later carving.Printing [ Bookbinding.] Mechanical Engineering [ Mach.] Nautical, Naval Terms a projecting part in a ship's hull, or in one frame of a hull, fitting around a propeller shaft. v.t.
Architecture to ornament with bosses.Fine Art to emboss.Building (in plumbing) to hammer (sheet metal, as lead) to conform to an irregular surface. Vulgar Latin *bottia, of uncertain origin, originally Anglo-French: lump, growth, boil; Old French Middle English boce 1250–1300 boss3
(bos, bôs),USA pronunciation n. a familiar name for a calf or cow. compare dialect, dialectal (SW England) borse, boss, buss six-month-old calf 1790–1800, American . boss4
(bos),USA pronunciation adj. [ Scot.]
Scottish Terms hollow;
of obscure origin, originally 1505–15
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
boss / bɒs / a person in charge of or employing others a professional politician who controls a party machine or political organization, often using devious or illegal methods a major opponent in a computer game, who must be defeated in order to win the game or advance to the next stage to employ, supervise, or be in charge of usually followed by around or about : to be domineering or overbearing towards (others) excellent; fine : a boss hand at carpentry , that's boss! Etymology: 19th Century: from Dutch baas master; probably related to Old High German basa aunt, Frisian baes master boss / bɒs / a knob, stud, or other circular rounded protuberance, esp an ornamental one on a vault, a ceiling, or a shield an area of increased thickness, usually cylindrical, that strengthens or provides room for a locating device on a shaft, hub of a wheel, etc an exposed rounded mass of igneous or metamorphic rock, esp the uppermost part of an underlying batholith transitive ) to ornament with bosses; emboss Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French boce , from Vulgar Latin bottia (unattested); related to Italian bozza metal knob, swelling