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's

/s/UK/ɪz/

's is the contraction of is.

's is the contraction of has.

's is the contraction of was.

's is the contraction of does, used only with the auxiliary meaning of does.

's is the contraction of it's.

's is the contraction of us.

Meaning of is

Verb

is

  1. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.
    • There is three of them there.

Meaning of was

Verb

was

  1. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
    • There was three of them there.

See all 2 meanings of was

Forms of 's

alternative form’s

Origin of 's

Contractions of various words ending in s.

Words formed from 's

Phrases with 's

Questions about 's

What is 's the contraction of?
's is the contraction of is.
How do you pronounce 's?
's is pronounced /s/.

Words near 's in the dictionary

  1. 'roo
  2. 'roos
  3. 'round
  4. 'rrhoids
  5. 'rt
  6. 's
  7. 's born
  8. 's-Hertogenbosch
  9. 'sall
  10. 'sall good
  11. 'sarvo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 's (page history and authors); is (page history and authors); was (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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