how's

See also: hows

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haʊz/
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  • (Northumbria) IPA(key): /huːz/
  • Rhymes: -aʊz
  • Homophone: house (verb, in some dialects)

Contraction

how's

  1. Contraction of how +‎ is.
  2. Contraction of how +‎ are.
    Synonym: how're
    How’s things
  3. Contraction of how +‎ has.
  4. Contraction of how +‎ does.
    How’s that work?

Noun

how's

  1. Alternative spelling of hows (plural of how).
    • 1977, Alva Myrdal, The Game of Disarmament: How the United States and Russia Run the Arms Race‎[1], A Personal Note (foreword), page xxiii:
      I was never able to stop the search for the why's and how's of something so senseless as the arms race.

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