• n.
    ⦿a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
    lexical concept
  • ‘o'clock’ is a contraction of ‘of the clock’
  • ‘won't’ is a contraction of ‘will not’

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:contraction
wn:interlingual indexili:i69553

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcontraction