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them's

US/ðɛms/

them's is the contraction of them.

Meaning of them

Pronoun

them (third-person, personal pronoun, objective case of they)

  1. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used as the direct object of a verb.
    • She treated them for a cold.
  2. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used as the indirect object of a verb.
    • She wrote them a letter.
  3. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used as the object of a preposition.
    • Give it to them.
  4. (colloquial, in plural, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, third-person) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
    • [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
  5. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
    • Who was there? —Them.
  6. (personal, pronoun, singular, third-person, occasionally proscribed) Used as the direct object of a verb.
    • If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.

See all 13 meanings of them

Words formed from them's

Questions about them's

What is them's the contraction of?
Them's is the contraction of them.
How do you pronounce them's?
Them's is pronounced /ðɛms/ (US).

Words near them's in the dictionary

  1. them what has, gets
  2. them what has, gets more
  3. them'all
  4. them'en
  5. them'in
  6. them's
  7. them's the breaks
  8. them's the facts
  9. them'un
  10. them-and-us
  11. them-en

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