Used to form the possessive case of singular nouns, plural nouns that do not end in s, certain pronouns, and phrases that function as nouns or pronouns: nation's; women's; another's; the girl next door's cat.
[Middle English -s, -es, from Old English -es, genitive sing. suff.]
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