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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| -s or -es1 | |
| —suffix | |
| forming the plural of most nouns: boys; boxes | |
| [from Old English -as, plural nominative and accusative ending of some masculine nouns] | |
| -es or -es1 | |
| —suffix | |
| [from Old English -as, plural nominative and accusative ending of some masculine nouns] | |
| -s or -es2 | |
| —suffix | |
| forming the third person singular present indicative tense of verbs: he runs; she washes | |
| [from Old English (northern dialect) -es, -s, originally the ending of the second person singular] | |
| -es or -es2 | |
| —suffix | |
| [from Old English (northern dialect) -es, -s, originally the ending of the second person singular] | |
| -s3 | |
| —suffix | |
| forming nicknames and names expressing affection or familiarity: Fats; Fingers; ducks | |
| [special use of | |
| -'s | |
| —suffix | |
| 1. | forming the possessive singular of nouns and some pronouns: man's; one's |
| 2. | forming the possessive plural of nouns whose plurals do not end in -s: children's |
| 3. | forming the plural of numbers, letters, or symbols: 20's; p's and q's |
| 4. | informal contraction of is or has: he's here; John's coming; it's gone |
| 5. | informal contraction of us with let: let's |
| 6. | informal contraction of does in some questions: where's he live?; what's he do? |
| [senses 1, 2: assimilated contraction from Middle English -es, from Old English, masculine and neuter genitive singular; sense 3, equivalent to | |
| -s' | |
| —suffix | |
| forming the possessive of plural nouns ending in the sound s or z and of some singular nouns: girls'; for goodness' sake | |