"'s" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /s/ (note: after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/), /ɪz/ [UK], /ɪz/ [US], /əz/ [US], /əz/ [General-Australian], /z/ (note: elsewhere) Audio: En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg [US] Forms: ’s [canonical]
enPR: s (note: elsewhere), ĭz (note: elsewhere), əz (note: elsewhere), z (note: elsewhere) Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Head templates: {{en-adv|-|head=’s}} ’s (not comparable)
  1. (UK, dialect) Contraction of as. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, dialectal, not-comparable Alternative form of: as
    Sense id: en-'s-en-adv-nCUI8hxk Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Conjunction

IPA: /s/ (note: after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/), /ɪz/ [UK], /ɪz/ [US], /əz/ [US], /əz/ [General-Australian], /z/ (note: elsewhere) Audio: En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg [US] Forms: ’s [canonical]
enPR: s (note: elsewhere), ĭz (note: elsewhere), əz (note: elsewhere), z (note: elsewhere) Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Head templates: {{en-conjunction|head=’s}} ’s
  1. (UK, dialect) Contraction of as (when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that"). Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, dialectal Alternative form of: as (extra: (when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that"))
    Sense id: en-'s-en-conj-bL6LMMjg Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Determiner

IPA: /s/ (note: after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/), /ɪz/ [UK], /ɪz/ [US], /əz/ [US], /əz/ [General-Australian], /z/ (note: elsewhere) Audio: En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg [US] Forms: ’s [canonical]
enPR: s (note: elsewhere), ĭz (note: elsewhere), əz (note: elsewhere), z (note: elsewhere) Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Head templates: {{head|en|determiner|head=’s}} ’s
  1. (poetic) Contraction of his. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, poetic Alternative form of: his
    Sense id: en-'s-en-det-czmh5Ywa
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Pronoun

IPA: /s/ (note: after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/), /ɪz/ [UK], /ɪz/ [US], /əz/ [US], /əz/ [General-Australian], /z/ (note: elsewhere) Audio: En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg [US] Forms: ’s [canonical]
enPR: s (note: elsewhere), ĭz (note: elsewhere), əz (note: elsewhere), z (note: elsewhere) Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|clitic|cat2=clitics|head=’s}} ’s (clitic)
  1. Contraction of us (found in the formula let’s which is used to form first-person plural imperatives). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction Alternative form of: us (extra: found in the formula let’s which is used to form first-person plural imperatives)
    Sense id: en-'s-en-pron-aNBAqghB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Suffix

IPA: /s/ (note: after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/), /ɪz/ [UK], /ɪz/ [US], /əz/ [US], /əz/ [General-Australian], /z/ (note: elsewhere) Audio: En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg [US]
enPR: s (note: elsewhere), ĭz (note: elsewhere), əz (note: elsewhere), z (note: elsewhere) Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=inflectional suffixes|cat3=|head=|id=}} 's, {{en-suffix|cat2=inflectional suffixes}} 's
  1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of -s (when referring to numerical ranges) Tags: alt-of, alternative, morpheme, proscribed, sometimes Alternative form of: -s (extra: when referring to numerical ranges)
    Sense id: en-'s-en-suffix-It7hd~2d
  2. Misspelling of -s. (when forming plurals, possessive pronouns, etc.) Tags: alt-of, misspelling, morpheme Alternative form of: -s (extra: when forming plurals, possessive pronouns, etc.)
    Sense id: en-'s-en-suffix-zM8ty48U
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /s/ (note: after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/), /ɪz/ [UK], /ɪz/ [US], /əz/ [US], /əz/ [General-Australian], /z/ (note: elsewhere) Audio: En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg [US] Forms: ’s [canonical]
enPR: s (note: elsewhere), ĭz (note: elsewhere), əz (note: elsewhere), z (note: elsewhere) Etymology: Contractions of various words ending in s. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form|clitic|cat2=clitics|head=’s}} ’s (clitic)
  1. Contraction of is. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction Alternative form of: is
    Sense id: en-'s-en-verb-hC2e45SS
  2. Contraction of has. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction Alternative form of: has
    Sense id: en-'s-en-verb-4CdzSNwU
  3. (proscribed, dialectal, Southern US) Contraction of was. Tags: Southern-US, abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction, dialectal, proscribed Alternative form of: was
    Sense id: en-'s-en-verb-CFZVrhZh Categories (other): Southern US English
  4. (informal) Contraction of does (used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clitic, contraction, informal Alternative form of: does (extra: used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words)
    Sense id: en-'s-en-verb-VklEgj0b
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Related terms: apostrophe, contraction, 'd, ’d, 'll, ’ll, 'm, ’m, 're, ’re, -'s, -’s, 've, ’ve

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          "text": "What’s it mean?",
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          "text": "Where’s the n in Javanese come from?",
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  "etymology_templates": [],
  "etymology_text": "",
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "inflectional suffixes",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
      "expansion": "'s",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
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    }
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  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "when referring to numerical ranges",
          "word": "-s"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English proscribed terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of -s (when referring to numerical ranges)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-s",
          "-s#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of -s (when referring to numerical ranges)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "morpheme",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "when forming plurals, possessive pronouns, etc.",
          "word": "-s"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English misspellings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of -s. (when forming plurals, possessive pronouns, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-s",
          "-s#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "misspelling",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/s/",
      "note": "after voiceless consonants except /s/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/z/",
      "note": "elsewhere"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "-s"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c7/En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg/En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/En-us-s_sound_after_consonant.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "s",
      "note": "elsewhere"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ĭz",
      "note": "elsewhere"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "əz",
      "note": "elsewhere"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "z",
      "note": "elsewhere"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'s"
}

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