• (British, America, CA, Australia) IPA: /ɪz/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɘz/

1. third-person singular form of be

   He is a doctor.

   • 2012, Robert Moore, Where the Gold is Buried, a legend of Old Fort Niagara (ISBN 9781105635878), page 137:

     "It's not two weeks yet," I reminded her, hoping that might somehow cheer her. [...] "Tomorrow is two weeks," Ruth said in a distant voice, staring into the flames.

2. (now, colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is a third-person plural.

   There is three of them there.

   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii], page 141 ↗, column 2:

     Ber. There is five in the firſt ſhew, / Ken. You are deceiued, tis not so.

• bes (AAVE)

• (British, America) IPA: /aɪz/

1. plural form of i

   remember to dot your i's

1. Initialism of Islamic State
2. (languages) Initialism of Interior Salish

• (Islamic State) ISIS, ISIL, Daesh

• French: EI
• German: IS
• Spanish: EI

is

1. Initialism of International Sign
2. (computing) Initialism of information system(s)
3. (politics) Initialism of international studies

1. plural form of I
2. Abbreviation of islands#English|Islands. (also Is.)