Definitions for yours

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yours yours

Spelling: [yoo rz, yawrz, yohrz]

IPA: /yʊərz, yɔrz, yoʊrz/

Yours is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in yours (orsuy).

Definitions for yours

noun

1. something or someone closely identified with or resembling the person addressed:
2. the nature or character of the person addressed:

pronoun

1. (a form of the possessive case of you used as a predicate adjective):
2. that which belongs to you:
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):
4. (used by the Friends) a familiar form of address of the second person singular.
5. the pronoun of the second person singular or plural, used of the person or persons being addressed, in the nominative or objective case:
6. one; anyone; people in general:
7. (used in apposition with the subject of a sentence, sometimes repeated for emphasis following the subject):
8. Informal. (used in place of the pronoun your before a gerund):
9. Archaic. yourself; yourselves: a plural form of the pronoun ye1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to address as “thou.”.

verb (used without object)

1. to use “thou” in discourse.

Origin of yours

1250-1300; Middle English, equivalent to your + -s, as in his

Examples for yours

Another movie of yours my friends and me were obsessed with growing up was Face/Off.

I read that the series Hello Ladies came from a stand-up show of yours.

I shall marry you, if you think I'm the woman to help you in that big, new life of yours.

The more resources and education society becomes equipped with, the fewer stories like yours will surface.

After reading Ever yours, if nothing else, one can start to understand how such a fanatic mind could produce such fanatic art.

In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties.

My promise is spoken; yours unspoken, but not the less real and solemn.

I take you at your word, Clarissa—Give me his letters; and the copies of yours.

They owed me every thing, like you—their gratitude was unbounded, even as yours.

It has to be strange to know so much about their lives while they know nothing about yours.