Usually means: Female name, often nickname Elizabeth.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word bess:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bess: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Bess, bess: Wordnik
  3. BESS, Bess: Wiktionary
  4. Bess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Bess: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. bess: Dictionary.com
  7. BESS (experiment), BESS, Bess (Ga'Hoole), Bess (content-control software), Bess (name), Bess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Bess: Rhymezone
  9. Bess: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Bess: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BESS (experiment), Bess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BESS (experiment), BESS: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BESS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bess, bess: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bess: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (BESS)

noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
noun:  (gay slang) A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.
noun:  (military, US) Initialism of Basic Enlisted Submarine School.
noun:  (physics) Initialism of Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer.
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of biportal endoscopic spine surgery.

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