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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Used as a modifier before a noun: The airline canceled its early flight to New York.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The possessive case of the neuter pronoun it. See it, 1 , and he I., C .

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Belonging to it (used as a possessive adjective). [from 16th c.]
  2. pro. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
  3. pro. term is even rarer in double possessive constructions.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Possessive form of the pronoun it. See it.

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of it's : it + -'s.

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  • qroqqa A newcomer to the pronoun system, only arising around 1600. It does not occur in the Authorized Version of the Bible, for example, which continues to use the transitional form thereof. Jul 2, 2010

  • mollusque 'tisn't Apr 4, 2009

  • bilby Its not? Apr 4, 2009

  • jennarenn *Amazingly*, this word is not interchangeable with it's. Apr 3, 2009

‘its’ has been looked up 2493 times, added to 6 lists, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 3.