s

1. satisfactory.
2. signature.
3. small.
4. soft.
5. south.

's

1. an ending used in writing to represent the possessive morpheme after most singular nouns, some plural nouns, especially those not ending in a letter or combination of letters representing ansorzsound, noun phrases, and noun substitutes, as inman's, women's, baby's, James's, witness's,(orwitness'),king of England's,oranyone's.

S

[ es ]

1. the 19th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. any spoken sound represented by the letterSors,as insaw, sense,orgoose.
3. something having the shape of an S .
4. a written or printed representation of the letterSors.
5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letterSors.

-s

1. a native English suffix used in the formation of adverbs:

   always; betimes; needs; unawares.

S.

1. (in prescriptions) mark; write; label.

s

1. second.

's

1. contraction ofis:

   She's here.

2. contraction ofdoes:

   What's he do for a living now?

3. contraction ofhas:

   He's just gone.

S

1. satisfactory.
2. Baseball.sacrifice ( def 6 ).
3. Baseball.save¹( def 17 ).
4. Saxon.
5. sentence.
6. short.
7. Electricity.siemens.
8. signature.
9. single.
10. small.
11. soft.
12. Music.soprano.
13. South.
14. Southern.
15. state (highway).
16. Grammar.subject.

-s

1. an ending marking the third person singular indicative active of verbs:

   walks.

S.

1. (in prescriptions) let it be written.

's

1. a contraction ofGod's,as in'swounds; 'sdeath; 'sblood.

S

1. the 19th in order or in a series
2. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 7 or 70. CompareRoman numerals.
3. second.
4. Biochemistry.serine ( def ).
5. Thermodynamics.entropy ( def 1b ).
6. Physics.strangeness ( def 2 ).
7. Chemistry.sulfur ( def 1 ).

-s

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-s3is 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-s3has no plural value, are adjectives denoting socially unacceptable or inconvenient states (bananas; bonkers; crackers; nuts; preggers; starkers);-ers.

S.

1. Fellow.

's

1. a contraction ofus,as inLet's go.

-s

1. a suffix ofhypocoristic nouns, generally proper names or forms used only in address:

   Babs; Fats; Suzykins; Sweetums; Toodles.

S.

1. Sabbath.
2. Saint.
3. Saturday.
4. Saxon.
5. (in Austria) schilling; schillings.
6. School.
7. Sea.
8. Senate.
9. September.
10. shilling; shillings.
11. Signor.
12. Small.
13. Socialist.
14. Society.
15. sol³( def 1 ).
16. South.
17. Southern.
18. (in Ecuador) sucre; sucres.
19. Sunday.

's

1. a contraction ofas,as inso's to get there on time.

s.

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

s

/ ɛs /

1. the 19th letter and 15th consonant of the modern English alphabet
2. a speech sound represented by this letter, usually an alveolar fricative, either voiceless, as insit,or voiced, as indogs
3. 1. something shaped like an S
   2. (in combination)

      an S-bend in a road

s

1. second (of time)

S

1. satisfactory
2. Society
3. small (size)
4. South
5. chem sulphur
6. physics
   1. entropy
   2. siemens
   3. strangeness
7. currency
   1. (the former) schilling
   2. sol
   3. (the former) sucre

1. Sweden (international car registration)

-'s

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 ofisorhas

   he's here

   John's coming

   it's gone

5. informal.
   contraction ofuswithlet

   let's

6. informal.
   contraction ofdoesin some questions

   what's he do?

   where's he live?

-s'

1. forming the possessive of plural nouns ending in the soundsorzand of some singular nouns

   for goodness' sake

   girls'

S.

1. SS Saint
2. school
3. Sea
4. Signor
5. Society

s.

1. see
2. semi-
3. shilling
4. singular
5. son
6. succeeded

-s

1. forming the plural of most nouns

   boys

   boxes

-s

1. forming the third person singular present indicative tense of verbs

   he runs

   she washes

-s

1. forming nicknames and names expressing affection or familiarity

   Fingers

   ducks

   Fats