ahs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of ah.

   Soft ahs rippled through the theater as the curtain rose.

   The fireworks earned a long string of delighted ahs from the spectators.

   Note

   Here each ah is counted as a sound you can hear many of. A crowd's ahs might carry relief, wonder, awe or sudden understanding, depending on how they are voiced. The plural is regular and belongs only to this noun, since the dialect spelling of I has no plural. The same letters also spell the verb form: an article or adjective before ahs marks the noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of ah.

   The toddler ahs with wonder each time the music box opens.

   My grandmother ahs contentedly when she sinks into her favorite chair.

   Note

   A verb made straight from the cry: to ah is to give a cry of "ah", and it takes no object. It usually comes with a word saying how (ahs softly, ahs with relief), because the meaning of the cry lies in its tone. It is spelled like the plural noun, and a subject before it shows it is the verb.

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