Dictionaries can be more complicated that people realize. After you look up a word, here are all of the different parts of an entry, including definition, usage label, etymology, and more. Learn to use the dicitonary.
SOS actually did not stand for anything, orginally; "Save Our Seamen", "Save our Ship", "Survivors On Shore", "Save Our Souls" or "Save Our Selves" are just ways to guess the meaning. But in reality, it was used because the letter S and O are easy to make and are distinctive. ...
Around the handsome cars people are streaming to board the ship, jostling with hustling seamen and stokers, porters, and barking WHITE STAR LINE officials. The Renault stops and the LIVERIED DRIVER scurries to open the door for a YOUNG WOMAN dressed in a stunning white and purple outfit, ...
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