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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

in't en · X

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnt/

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction) Contraction of in + it.
    alt of in
    • O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], pages 17–18:
  2. (Northern-England, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, informal) Contraction of isn't.
    alt of isn't
    • But all of that's what the point is not / The point's that there in't no romance around there 2006, Alex Turner, “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys: