WS
Abbreviation with 5 meanings
| Stands for | World Series |
|---|---|
| Meanings | 5 |
| Categories | Sports, Transportation & Travel, Arts & Entertainment, Geography & Places |
WS has five meanings. The most common are World Series (baseball) and WestJet (airline code); it can also stand for Win shares, Wide shot and Samoa.
Meanings of WS at a glance
| # | WS stands for | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Series | Sports › Baseball |
| 2 | WestJet | Transportation & Travel › Airline Code |
| 3 | Win shares | Sports › Basketball |
| 4 | Wide shot | Arts & Entertainment › Film, Television and Theater |
| 5 | Samoa | Geography & Places › Country Code |
1. World Series
Sports · Baseball Abbreviations
Annual championship series of Major League Baseball, a best-of-seven matchup between the American League and National League pennant winners, played in late October and sometimes into November. Nicknamed the Fall Classic.
Example: Game 7 of the WS went to extra innings before the visitors finally broke through.
First played in 1903; it was not held in 1904, when the New York Giants refused to play, or in 1994, because of the players' strike. The New York Yankees have won the most titles, 27. The winner receives the Commissioner's Trophy. The name came from the newspaper term "World's Championship Series," not a sponsor.
2. WestJet
Transportation & Travel · Airline Code Abbreviations
Canada's second-largest airline, based in Calgary, offering domestic, transborder and leisure flights to the US, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Example: WestJet WS 1408 to Cancún leaves Calgary at 7 a.m. every Saturday in winter.
ICAO code WJA; callsign "WestJet." Founded in 1996 as a low-cost carrier modeled on Southwest Airlines, it later added long-haul and premium services. WestJet acquired Sunwing Airlines in 2023. It is owned by private equity firm Onex.
3. Win shares
Sports · Basketball Abbreviations
Estimate of the number of team wins a player is responsible for, split into offensive and defensive win shares. Basketball-Reference adapted the method from Bill James's baseball statistic.
Example: He led all players with 15.6 WS in the regular season.
Bill James introduced win shares for baseball in his 2002 book of the same name; Justin Kubatko built the basketball version. WS/48, win shares per 48 minutes, measures rate rather than total. In baseball box scores WS means World Series.
4. Wide shot
Arts & Entertainment · Film, Television and Theater Abbreviations
Shot showing the full subject and much of the surroundings, often used to establish a location or show action and movement. Also called a long shot.
Example: Open on a WS of the empty stadium at dawn.
An establishing shot is usually a wide shot at the start of a scene. Wide shots can make characters look small or isolated. In basketball analytics WS means win shares, and in baseball the World Series.
5. Samoa
Geography & Places · Country Code Abbreviations
Polynesian nation with Apia as its capital and WSM as its alpha-3 code, called Western Samoa until 1997, which explains the W in its code. Its .ws domain is marketed as short for website.
Example: Samoa, WS skipped December 30, 2011, to move west of the International Date Line.
American Samoa, a US territory, uses AS. Samoa was the first Pacific island nation to gain independence, in 1962.
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