"'twas" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "’twasn’t"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "’twas",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "2": "contraction",
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    },
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      "args": {
        "head": "’twas"
      },
      "expansion": "’twas",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "it was"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1779, John Newton, Amazing Grace",
          "text": "’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, / […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1823, perhaps Clement Clarke Moore, A Visit from St. Nicholas",
          "text": "’Twas the night before Christmas, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”, in Through the Looking-Glass",
          "text": "’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 8, “Noble Knight Artorigus”, in Galactic Overlord, Konami",
          "text": "’Twas the first of many feats so great,\nA legend through and through. We sing of him,\nArtorigus, the Noble and the brave.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contraction of it was."
      ],
      "id": "en-'twas-en-contraction-JiGr3PHb",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it#English"
        ],
        [
          "was",
          "was#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or poetic) Contraction of it was."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "'twere"
        },
        {
          "word": "'tweren't"
        },
        {
          "word": "'tis"
        },
        {
          "word": "'tisn't"
        },
        {
          "word": "'twill"
        },
        {
          "word": "'tshall"
        },
        {
          "word": "it'll"
        },
        {
          "word": "'twon't"
        },
        {
          "word": "'twould"
        },
        {
          "word": "'twou'd"
        },
        {
          "word": "'twouldn't"
        },
        {
          "word": "'twou'dn't"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "archaic",
        "contraction",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/twɒz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/twʌz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒz"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌz"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-'twas.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/En-us-%27twas.ogg/En-us-%27twas.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/En-us-%27twas.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'twas"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yol",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "was"
      },
      "expansion": "it + was",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "it + was",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yol",
        "2": "contraction"
      },
      "expansion": "'twas",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yola",
  "lang_code": "yol",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with raw sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yola entries with incorrect language header",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The goal-keeper, trembling, said well 'twas intended them.",
          "ref": "1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 86",
          "text": "Th' cowlee-man, fausteen, zey well 'twas ee-naate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "it was"
      ],
      "id": "en-'twas-yol-contraction-mZTkJD0r",
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        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
        [
          "was",
          "was"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "'tus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "'twas"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "’twasn’t"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "’twas",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "head": "’twas"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "’twas"
      },
      "expansion": "’twas",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "'twere"
    },
    {
      "word": "'tweren't"
    },
    {
      "word": "'tis"
    },
    {
      "word": "'tisn't"
    },
    {
      "word": "'twill"
    },
    {
      "word": "'tshall"
    },
    {
      "word": "it'll"
    },
    {
      "word": "'twon't"
    },
    {
      "word": "'twould"
    },
    {
      "word": "'twou'd"
    },
    {
      "word": "'twouldn't"
    },
    {
      "word": "'twou'dn't"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "it was"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English aphetic forms",
        "English contractions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with raw sortkeys",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒz",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒz/1 syllable",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌz",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌz/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1779, John Newton, Amazing Grace",
          "text": "’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, / […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1823, perhaps Clement Clarke Moore, A Visit from St. Nicholas",
          "text": "’Twas the night before Christmas, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”, in Through the Looking-Glass",
          "text": "’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 8, “Noble Knight Artorigus”, in Galactic Overlord, Konami",
          "text": "’Twas the first of many feats so great,\nA legend through and through. We sing of him,\nArtorigus, the Noble and the brave.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contraction of it was."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it#English"
        ],
        [
          "was",
          "was#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or poetic) Contraction of it was."
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "archaic",
        "contraction",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/twɒz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/twʌz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒz"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌz"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-'twas.ogg",
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'twas"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "yol",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "was"
      },
      "expansion": "it + was",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "it + was",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yol",
        "2": "contraction"
      },
      "expansion": "'twas",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yola",
  "lang_code": "yol",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with raw sortkeys",
        "Yola compound terms",
        "Yola contractions",
        "Yola entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yola non-lemma forms",
        "Yola terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The goal-keeper, trembling, said well 'twas intended them.",
          "ref": "1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 86",
          "text": "Th' cowlee-man, fausteen, zey well 'twas ee-naate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "it was"
      ],
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        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
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          "was",
          "was"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "'tus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'twas"
}