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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. 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. 2

    informalYour house or home.

    Let's go over to yours.

  3. 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.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).