's

Meaning

Verb

1. Contraction of is.
2. Contraction of has.
3. Contraction of was.
4. (informal) Contraction of does (used only with the auxiliary meaning of does and only after interrogative words).

Pron

Contraction of us (found in the formula let’s which is used to form first-person plural imperatives).

Det

Contraction of his.

Conj

Contraction of as (when it is (nonstandardly) used as a relative conjunction, or like a relative pronoun, meaning "that").

Adv

Contraction of as.

Synonyms

of

Pronounced as (IPA)

/s/

Etymology

Contractions of various words ending in s.

Sentences

John Held Jr . 's maternal grandfather , James Evans , was an English convert to Mormonism .