"'twouldn't" meaning in English

See 'twouldn't in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Contraction

Forms: ’twouldn’t [canonical]
Etymology: ’twould + -n’t or 't + wouldn't Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|'twould|n't|alt1=’twould|alt2=n’t}} ’twould + -n’t Head templates: {{head|en|contraction|head=’twouldn’t}} ’twouldn’t, {{en-cont|head=’twouldn’t}} ’twouldn’t
  1. (archaic) Contraction of it would not. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction Alternative form of: it would not Synonyms: ’twou’dn’t [rare]

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "'twould",
        "3": "n't",
        "alt1": "’twould",
        "alt2": "n’t"
      },
      "expansion": "’twould + -n’t",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "’twould + -n’t or 't + wouldn't",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "’twouldn’t",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": "’twouldn’t"
      },
      "expansion": "’twouldn’t",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "’twouldn’t"
      },
      "expansion": "’twouldn’t",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "it would not"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -n't",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contraction of it would not."
      ],
      "id": "en-'twouldn't-en-contraction-Y8J8-udh",
      "links": [
        [
          "it",
          "it#English"
        ],
        [
          "would",
          "would#English"
        ],
        [
          "not",
          "not#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Contraction of it would not."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "’twou’dn’t"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "archaic",
        "contraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "'twouldn't"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "'twould",
        "3": "n't",
        "alt1": "’twould",
        "alt2": "n’t"
      },
      "expansion": "’twould + -n’t",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "’twould + -n’t or 't + wouldn't",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "’twouldn’t",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": "’twouldn’t"
      },
      "expansion": "’twouldn’t",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "’twouldn’t"
      },
      "expansion": "’twouldn’t",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "it would not"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English contractions",
        "English double contractions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms suffixed with -n't",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contraction of it would not."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "it",
          "it#English"
        ],
        [
          "would",
          "would#English"
        ],
        [
          "not",
          "not#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Contraction of it would not."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "archaic",
        "contraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "’twou’dn’t"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'twouldn't"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 'twouldn't meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.