Yours
pron1
Honorific Honorific alternative letter-case form of yours, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
yours
pronalso spelled YoursUK /jɔː(ɹ)z/ · US /jɔɹz/
Etymology From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.
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That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
- If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.
- Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.
3 more examples
- Are all these socks yours?
- The socks of yours are a bit niffy.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
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Informal Your house or home.
- Let's go over to yours.
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Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
- Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,
- Synonyms
- yourn
- Derived terms
- beg yours, both of yours, I don't fancy yours, truly yours, up yours, what's yours, wouldn't touch with yours, you and yours, you'll get yours, yours ever, yours trulies, yours truly, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
- Related terms
55 terms
Ime, me, myselfmemysen, mine, mymineme, we, us, ourselvesourselfoursen, oursourn, our, you, yourselfyoursen, yoursyourn, your, thou, thee, thyselftheeselfthysen, thine, thythine, youye, yourselves, you ally'all you guys yous, y'allselves, all yours y'all's you guys' your guys', all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys', he, him, himselfhisselfhissen, hishisn, his, she, her, herselfhersen, hershern, ithit, itselfhitself, itshis, itshishits, they, them, themself, themselves, theirs, their, one, oneself, –, one's, themhem, 'em, themselvestheirsen, theirstheirn, The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun, including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete, archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.