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单词 's
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
S, s /ɛs/USA pronunciation   n. [countable], pl. Ss or S's, ss or s's. 
  1. the 19th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

S,  an abbreviation of:
  1. satisfactory.
  2. Linguisticssentence.
  3. small.
  4. GeographyAlso, s south.
  5. southern.
  6. state (highway).

's1 /s, z, ɪz/USA pronunciation  
  1. an ending that is added to nouns or noun phrases to indicate possession by:man's; children's;James's;witness's;
    attorney general's;
    king of England's;
    anyone's.

's2 /s, z, ɪz/USA pronunciation  
  1. a contraction that appears at the end of a noun or pronoun that is the subject of a verb, and is a shortened form of
    • the verb is: She's here (= She is here).
    • the verb has: He's been there (= He has been there).
    • the verb does: What's he do for a living? (= What does he do for a living?).

's4 /s/USA pronunciation  
  1. Pronounsa contraction that appears at the end of the verb let and is a shortened form of us: Let's go (= Let us go).

-s2 or -es,/s, z, ɪz/USA pronunciation  
  1. -s1 or -es is attached to the root form of verbs and marks the third person singular present indicative form, agreeing with a subject that is singular:He walks. She runs. The wind rushes through the trees.

-s3 or -es:
  1. -s2 or -es is attached to count nouns and marks the plural form:weeks; bushes;taxes;ladies;
    pianos;
    potatoes.

S.,  an abbreviation of:
  1. Saint.
  2. Saturday.
  3. Sea.
  4. September.
  5. Geographysouth.
  6. southern.
  7. Sunday.

s.,  an abbreviation of:
  1. school.
  2. section.
  3. small.
  4. Geographysouth.
  5. southern.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
S, s  (es),USA pronunciation n., pl. S's or Ss, s's or ss. 
  1. the 19th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
  2. any spoken sound represented by the letter S or s, as in saw, sense, or goose.
  3. something having the shape of anS.
  4. a written or printed representation of the letter S or s.
  5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter S or s.

S, 
    1. satisfactory.
    2. Saxon.
    3. Timesentence.
    4. short.
    5. Electricitysiemens.
    6. signature.
    7. single.
    8. small.
    9. soft.
    10. Music and Dancesoprano.
    11. GeographySouth.
    12. Southern.
    13. state (highway).
    14. Grammarsubject.

S,  Symbol.
  1. the 19th in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the 18th.
  2. (sometimes l.c.) the medieval Roman numeral for 7 or 70. Cf. Roman numerals. 
  3. second.
  4. [Biochem.]serine.
  5. [Thermodynam.]entropy.
  6. [Physics.]strangeness.
  7. sulfur.

s, 
    1. satisfactory.
    2. signature.
    3. small.
    4. soft.
    5. Geographysouth.

s, [Symbol.]
  1. Timesecond.

's1 ,
  1. 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.
  • Middle English -es, Old English

's2 :
  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.
    See contraction. 

's3 , [Archaic.]
  1. a contraction of God's, as in 'swounds;
    'sdeath;
    'sblood.

's4 :
  1. Pronounsa contraction of us, as in Let's go.
    See contraction. 

's5 ,
  1. a contraction of as, as in so's to get there on time.

-s1 :
  1. a native English suffix used in the formation of adverbs:always; needs;unawares.Cf. -ways. 
  • ultimately identical with 's1 Middle English -es, Old English

-s2 :
  1. an ending marking the third person sing. indicative active of verbs:walks.
  • Middle English (north) -(e)s, Old English (north); origin, originally ending of 2nd pers. singular, as in Latin and Greek; replacing Middle English, Old English -eth -eth1

-s3 :
  1. an ending marking nouns as plural (boys;
    wolves    ), occurring also on nouns that have no singular (dregs;
    entrails;
    pants;
    scissors    ), or on nouns that have a singular with a different meaning (clothes;
    glasses;
    manners;
    thanks    ). The pluralizing value of -s 3 is weakened or lost in a number of nouns that now often take singular agreement, as the names of games (billiards;
    checkers;
    tiddlywinks    ) and of diseases (measles;
    mumps;
    pox;
    rickets    );
    the latter use has been extended to create informal names for a variety of involuntary conditions, physical or mental (collywobbles;
    d.t.'s;
    giggles;
    hots;
    willies    ). A parallel set of formations, where -s 3 has no plural value, are adjectives denoting socially unacceptable or inconvenient states (bananas;
    bonkers;
    crackers;
    nuts;
    preggers;
    starkers    );
    cf.-ers. 
Also, -es. 
  • Middle English -(e)s, Old English -as, plural nominative and accusative ending of some masculine nouns

-s4 :
  1. a suffix of hypocoristic nouns, generally proper names or forms used only in address:Babs; Suzykins;Sweetums;Toodles.
  • probably from the metonymic use of nouns formed with -s3, as boots or Goldilocks

S., 
    1. Sabbath.
    2. Saint.
    3. Saturday.
    4. Saxon.
    5. Currency(in Austria) schilling;
      schillings.
    6. School.
    7. Sea.
    8. Senate.
    9. September.
    10. Currencyshilling;
      shillings.
      11. (in prescriptions) mark;
      write;
      label.
      • Latin signa
      let it be written.
      • Latin signa
    11. Signor.
    12. Small.
    13. Socialist.
    14. Society.
    15. Fellow.
      • Latin signa
    16. sol3 (def. 1).
    17. GeographySouth.
    18. Southern.
    19. (in Ecuador) sucre;
      sucres.
    20. Sunday.

s., 
    1. saint.
    2. school.
    3. second.
    4. section.
    5. see.
    6. series.
    7. Currencyshilling;
      shillings.
    8. sign.
    9. signed.
    10. silver.
    11. singular.
    12. sire.
    13. small.
    14. society.
    15. son.
    16. Geographysouth.
    17. southern.
    18. steamer.
    19. stem.
    20. stem of.
    21. substantive.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-'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?
Etymology: senses 1, 2: assimilated contraction from Middle English -es, from Old English, masculine and neuter genitive singular; sense 3, equivalent to -s1
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