'tis

See also: tis, TIS, tîş, -tis, and t'is

English

Alternative forms

• tis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /tɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɪz

Contraction

'tis

1. (literary or archaic, also occasionally colloquial) Contraction of it is.

   ’Tis a shame!

   ’Tis but a scratch!

   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1:

     Mercutio [wounded]: "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

   • 1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5:

     Why should we say 'tis yet too soon,
     To seek for Heaven or think of death[.]

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, The Chimes, Chapter III:

     It looks well in a picter, I've heerd say; but there an't weather in picters, and maybe 'tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.

Synonyms

• it's

Derived terms

• 'tisn't

See also

• 't
• 'twas, 'twasn't
• 'twere, 'tweren't
• 'twill/'tshall/it'll, 'twon't
• 'twould/'twou'd, 'twouldn't/'twou'dn't

Anagrams

• 'its, -ist, IST, ITS, Ist, SIT, STI, Sit, is't, ist, it's, its, sit

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Contraction

'tis

1. Alternative form of tis
   • NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE

     (3) "'Tis aul in shruaanès."

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98