you all

alternative y'all · alternative yo'll · alternative you-all · alternative youall · alternative you-alls

1. All of you; plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.

   I'm very happy to see you all.

   Synonyms: the list of other second-person plural pronouns at Thesaurus:y'all

2. Southern UScolloquialidiomaticYou (with singular or plural referent); y'all.First known use 19th c.

   I ain't never been as far as you-all aim to go.

   1946, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

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   I am really longing to see you “all”—as the Southerners say—and aren't you coming east this summer?

   1926, Hart Crane, letter, 2 March