thats

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English

Noun

thats

1. plural of that

Pronoun

thats

1. (West Midlands, Northern Ireland) whose, of which
   • 2007, Paul Mavis, review of the 1983 film "Hundra", DVD Talk, March 25th

     set about to make a spoofy fantasy adventure thats focus would be on a gorgeous, blonde, man-hating super-warrior who was subservient to no one.

   • 2015, James Harbeck, The future of English includes an apostrophe-less 'thats', The Week

     Let me tell you about a word thats time has come.

Usage notes

• Generally used in dialects which require an animate antecedent for whose.
• Distinguished from the contraction that's with an apostrophe, analogously to its and it's, or whose and its homonym who's.

Alternative forms

• that's

Contraction

thats

1. Obsolete form of that's.

References

Anagrams

• shatt, taths