contraction
Meaning 1
That is.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: contraction
Examples
- That's the book I've been looking for.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
that's
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ðəts/ weak form
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/ðæts/
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rhymes with -æts
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CMU ARPABET: DH AE1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
contraction
Meaning 2
That has.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: contraction
Examples
- I've managed to find the solution to the problem that's been bugging me all day.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
contraction
Meaning 3
That was.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: contraction, proscribed
Examples
- Yesterday, that's bugging me all day.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
det
Meaning 4
whose, of which (in dialects that require a human antecedent for 'whose')
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Northern-Ireland, US, West-Midlands
Examples
- 1995, Aimo Seppänen & Göran Kjellmer. The dog that's leg was run over: On the genitive of the relative pronoun. English Studies 76, 389–400.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From that + 's (contraction of words ending in s).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tód Proto-Germanic *þod Proto-Germanic *þat Proto-West Germanic *þat Old English þæt Middle English that English that English -'s English that's From that + -'s (possessive marker).
Real reading context