Avis Explained

Avis is Latin for bird and may refer to:

Aviation

• Auster Avis, a 1940s four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
• Avro Avis, a two-seat biplane
• Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate Avis, an early aircraft built by Howard Wright

Businesses

• Avis Budget Group
• Avis Car Rental

People

• Avis (name), a given name and a surname
• Menton J. Matthews III or Avis, musician

Places

• Avis, Portugal, a municipality
• Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
• Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough

Other uses

• Andover Village Improvement Society, a land preservation society
• Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue, or AVIS, an Italian blood donation organisation
• Avis Dam, a dam near Windhoek, Namibia
• USS Avis (Sp-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• List of newspapers named Avis
• House of Aviz (Portuguese: Avis), a dynasty of kings of Portugal
• Avis, an open-source implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification
• Avis, a fictional deity on The Orville
• -avis, a commonly used taxonomic suffix

See also

• Aves (disambiguation)
• Aviz (disambiguation)