SMSPronunciation: /ɛsɛmˈɛs/Translate SMS | into French | into Italian Definition of SMS abbreviation Short Message (or Messaging) Service, a system that enables mobile phone users to send and receive text messages. noun (plural SMSs) a text message that is sent or received using SMS: Britons send millions of 160-character SMSs a day verb (SMSs, SMSing, SMSed) [no object] send someone a text message using SMS:I’m SMSing more than speaking on my mobile phone these days [with object]: SMS me or send me an emailSMS in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of SMS in the US English dictionary