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Definitions for Yours

[1] (a form of the possessive case of you used as a predicate adjective): Which cup is yours? Is she a friend of yours?
[2] that which belongs to you: Yours was the first face I recognized.
[3] Archaic except in some elevated or ecclesiastical prose . the personal pronoun of the second person singular in the nominative case (used to denote the person or thing addressed): Thou shalt not kill.
[4] (used by the Friends) a familiar form of address of the second person singular.
[5] to address as “thou.”
[6] to use “thou” in discourse.
[7] the pronoun of the second person singular or plural, used of the person or persons being addressed, in the nominative or objective case: You are the highest bidder. It is you who are to blame. We can't help you. This package came for you. Did she give you the book?
[8] one; anyone; people in general: a tiny animal you can't even see.
[9] (used in apposition with the subject of a sentence, sometimes repeated for emphasis following the subject): You children pay attention. You rascal, you!
[10] Informal . (used in place of the pronoun your before a gerund): There's no sense in you getting upset.
[11] Archaic . yourself; yourselves: Get you home. Make you ready. a plural form of the pronoun ye1.
[12] something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed: Don't buy the bright red shirt—it just isn't you. It was like seeing another you.
[13] the nature or character of the person addressed: Try to discover the hidden you.
[14] something or someone belonging to or associated in some way with you I've eaten yours
[15] your family greetings to you and yours
[16] used in conventional closing phrases at the end of a letter yours sincerely ; yours faithfully
[17] of yours belonging to or associated with you
[18] what's yours? jocular what would you like to drink?
[19] refers to the person addressed or to more than one person including the person or persons addressed but not including the speaker you know better ; the culprit is among you
[20] Also: one refers to an unspecified person or people in general you can't tell the boys from the girls
[21] mainly US a dialect word for yourself or yourselves you should get you a wife now See yourself
[22] informal the personality of the person being addressed or something that expresses it that hat isn't really you
[23] you know what or you know who a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
[24] archaic , dialect refers to the person addressed: used mainly in familiar address or to a younger person or inferior
[25] (usually capital) refers to God when addressed in prayer, etc
[26] one thousandth of an inch. 1 thou is equal to 0.0254 millimetre
[27] informal short for thousand

Words related to Yours

owned, mine, endemic, individual, inherent, intrinsic, particular, peculiar, personal, private, resident, hers, his, its, theirs

Words nearby Yours

younker, your, your guess is as good as mine, yourcenar, yourn, yours, yours truly, yourself, yous, youse, youskevitch

Origin of Yours

before 900; Middle English; Old English ēow (dative, accusative of gē ye1); cognate with Old Frisian ju, Old Saxon iu, Dutch u, Old High German iu, eu

Words that may be confused with Yours

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, youewe, yew, you, (see, usage, note, at, the, current, entry)

Word origin for Yours

thouOld English thū; related to Old Saxon thū, Old High German du, Old Norse thū, Latin tū, Doric Greek tu

Synonyms for Yours

owned, mine, endemic, hers, his, individual, inherent, intrinsic, its, particular, peculiar, personal, private, resident, theirs, very own