Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Own.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Own.
- A suffix of Latin origin, occurring unfelt in English nouns, as in chieftain, captain, chaplain, curtain, and, as originally, in adjectives, as in
certain , etc. It is a Middle English and Old French form of -an (which see). - noun The eighteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, having a vibratory palatal sound without any equivalent in English.
- noun A spring; a fountain. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective belonging to or on behalf of a specified person especially one's self; preceded by a possessive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
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Examples
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Ef all de ghostes say dey ain 'no ghosts, dey _ain'_ no ghosts. "
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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Ef all de ghostes say dey ain 'no ghosts, dey _ain'_ no ghosts. "
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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Hoover Electrolux fixed it ... the title ain't html
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O boyi .... why do people write such titles ... the title ain't this: |
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_on loan_; small wollum -- the title ain't clear, ah!
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Besides, this night - drivin 'ain't good for my complexion.
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But fifteen pounds off without trainin 'ain't condition, Then I'd been drinkin' pretty regular, an 'I didn't have my wind.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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The trick then was to get it into the hands of as many nice book-buyers as possible -- so I took it upon myself to hang around the books and pimp them like pimpin 'ain't dead.
September 19th, 2005 spidersweb 2005
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Beantown Blues: Home cookin 'ain't what it used to be for the Boston Red Sox.
USATODAY.com - Yanks-Giants was great theater, except for the walks 2002
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_Mushtarik_, or words which have several significations, as the Arabic word "'ain," which may mean an eye, a fountain, or the sun.
The Faith of Islam Edward Sell
bilby commented on the word ain
Scots - own.
January 30, 2009