hasn't

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

has +‎ -n't

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈhæzn̩t/
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Verb[edit]

hasn't

  1. Has not: negative form of the auxiliary has[1]
  2. (archaic, dialectal, literary) Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has
    • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
      “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513

Anagrams[edit]

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