how's
/haʊz/
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Northumbria/huːz/
how's is the contraction of how.
how's is the alternative spelling of hows.
Meaning of how
Adverb
how (not comparable)
- To what degree or extent.
- How often do you practice?
- In what manner
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- By what means.
- How do you solve this puzzle? –Sorry, I can't remember how.
- Synonyms:
- wherewithal, wherein
- With overtones of why, for what reason.
- How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!
- In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
- How are you fixed for money?
- With what meaning or effect.
- How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
Synonyms of how's
Phrases with how's
Words that rhyme with how's
Questions about how's
- What is how's the contraction of?
- How's is the contraction of how.
- How do you pronounce how's?
- How's is pronounced /haʊz/.
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