's meaning in Etymology Dictionary
suffix forming the possessive singular case of all Modern English nouns; its usage slowly had been extended in Middle English from Old English -es, the most typical genitive inflection of masculine and neuter nouns (eg d
's meaning in General Dictionary
A contraction for is or (colloquially) for has.
Sentence Examples with the word 's
See The Story of the Life of George Stephenson, including a Memoir of his Son Robert Stephenson, by Samuel Smiles (1857; new ed., 1873); Jeaffreson, Life of Robert Stephenson (2 vols., 1864); and Smiles 's Lives of British Engineers, vol.