| an ending used in writing to represent the possessive morpheme after most singular nouns, some plural nouns, esp. those not ending in a letter or combination of letters representing an s or z sound, noun phrases, and noun substitutes, as in man's, women's, baby's, James's, witness's, (or witness'), king of England's, or anyone's. |
| 1. | contraction of is: She's here. |
| 2. | contraction of does: What's he do for a living now? |
| 3. | contraction of has: He's just gone. |
| a contraction of God's, as in 'swounds; 'sdeath; 'sblood. |
| a contraction of as, as in so's to get there on time. |
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