's

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

Contraction of is.
Contraction of has.
Contraction of was.
Contraction of does, used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words.

pron

Contraction of us, found in the formula let's which is used to form first-person plural imperatives.

det

conj

Contraction of as, when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that".

adv

s /s/ En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg ĭz /ɪz/ əz /əz/ z /z/

Contractions of various words ending in s.

s' apostrophe contraction 'd 'll 'm 're -'s 've

so's all's

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