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and's

/ændz/

and's is the contraction of and.

Meaning of and

Conjunction

and

  1. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
    • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce...
  2. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
    • When she saw several boys carrying a huge wooden case full of porcelain, she mumbled to Jinming that she was going to have a look, and left the room.1991, Jung Chang, Wild Swans
  3. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
    • I'd been walking since sunrise, and I was hungry.
  4. (obsolete) Yet; but.
    • Hee said, I goe sir, and went not.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew XXII
  5. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
    • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 1
  6. (colloquial, literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
    • And these does she apply, for warnings and portents, / And euils imminent; and on her knee / Hath begg'd, that I will stay at home to day.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about and's

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

Words near and's in the dictionary

  1. and then some
  2. and what-not
  3. and whatnot
  4. and your little dog too
  5. and'll
  6. and's
  7. and/or
  8. ANDA
  9. andabatarian
  10. Andabuen
  11. Andai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: and's (page history and authors); and (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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