Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Is: She's here.
- Has: He's arrived.
- Does: What's he want?
- Us: Let's go.
Wiktionary
- v. contracted form of is
- v. contracted form of has
- v. informal contracted form of does (used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words)
- v. nonstandard are
- pro. Contracted form of us found in the formula let’s used to form first-person plural imperatives. Let’s is now considered as a compound.
- pro. nonstandard Contracted form of as in its nonstandard use as a relative pronoun.
- prep. Possessive marker, indicating than an object belongs to the noun phrase bearing the marker.
- prep. In the absence of a specified object, used to indicate “the house/place/establishment of”.
- n. Indicates a purpose or a user.
- n. usage problem Used to form the plurals of numerals, letters, some abbreviations and some nouns, usually because the omission of an apostrophe would make the meaning unclear or ambiguous.
- n. proscribed Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.
GNU Webster's 1913
- A contraction for
is or (colloquially) forhas .
Etymologies
- Equivalent to -s, with arbitrary use of apostrophe. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘s’.
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Poetrie: 500 Application Error
It's not as good as the 404 Poetrie, but I felt like I needed the set.
Sorry,
but this site has gone
all 500
Application
Error on you.
Something's wr...mind, your, of, piece, a, 's, email, feel, s, server, 500, sorry
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quirks of grammar
Particularly interesting grammatical quirks.
Yes, I said interesting. Who are you looking at so strangely?likely, must, rumoured, stride, there's, try, word, bush, hamstring, let's, 's, sheep and 4 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu See Saxon genitive and species for more discussion. Mar 30, 2011
bilby You stole it from a greengrocer, didn't you? Feb 11, 2009
qroqqa The genitive marker on (most) noun phrases. The only word in English that is an obligatory clitic: that is, it must be phonetically attached to the preceding word and cannot be pronounced on its own. Aug 28, 2008