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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Contraction of are not.

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  • phrase colloquial Are not.
  • phrase colloquial Spelling replacement for homonym an’t, a contraction of “am not”, in the construction aren’t I?.

Etymologies

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are +‎ -n’t

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