yours
pronountop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//jɔː(ɹ)z//
- United Kingdom//jʊəz//
- United Kingdom//jəz//
- United States//jɔɹz//
That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
pronoun
- 1
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.
Are all these socks yours?
The socks of yours are a bit niffy.
- 2
informalYour house or home.
Let's go over to yours.
- 3
Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,
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.
yours · That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
yourself · Your own self (singular).yourselves · You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group…yous · You.