Meanings
yours1
alternative archaic misspelling your's
- That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
Are all these socks yours?
4 more examples
If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.
Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.
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 - informalYour house or home.
Let's go over to yours.
- Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,
Yours2
- honorificHonorific alternative letter-case form of yours, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishyoures
- Englishyours
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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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic لَكَ, لَكِ
- لَكَ (laka)possessive pronoun, singular
- لَكِ (laki)possessive pronoun, singular
- لَكُمَا (lakumā)possessive pronoun, plural
- لَكُم (lakum)possessive pronoun, plural
- لَكُن (lakun)possessive pronoun, plural
Bulgarian твой, ваш
- твой (tvoj)possessive pronoun, singular
- ваш (vaš)possessive pronoun, plural
Dutch het jouwe, de jouwe
- het jouwepossessive pronoun, singular
- de jouwepossessive pronoun, singular
- van joupossessive pronoun, singular
- het uwepossessive pronoun, plural
- de uwepossessive pronoun, plural
- van julliepossessive pronoun, plural
Esperanto via
- viapossessive pronoun, singular
Finnish sinun, Teidän
- sinunpossessive pronoun, singular
- Teidänpossessive pronoun, singular
- teidänpossessive pronoun, plural
- Teidänpossessive pronoun, plural
- kunnioittavastisincerely
- terveisinsincerely
French le tien, la tienne
- le tienpossessive pronoun, singular
- la tiennepossessive pronoun, singular
- les tienspossessive pronoun, singular
- les tiennespossessive pronoun, singular
- le vôtrepossessive pronoun, plural
- la vôtrepossessive pronoun, plural
- les vôtrespossessive pronoun, plural
German deiner, Ihres
- deinerpossessive pronoun, singular
- Ihrespossessive pronoun, plural
Greek δικός σου, δικιά σου
- δικός σου (dikós sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικιά σου (dikiá sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δική σου (dikí sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικό σου (dikó sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικοί σου (dikoí sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικές σου (dikés sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικά σου (diká sou)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικός σας (dikós sas)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικιά σας (dikiá sas)possessive pronoun, singular
- δική σας (dikí sas)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικό σας (dikó sas)possessive pronoun, singular
- δικοί σας (dikoí sas)possessive pronoun, singular
Hungarian tiéd, tied
- tiédpossessive pronoun, singular
- tiedpossessive pronoun, singular
- önépossessive pronoun, singular
- magáépossessive pronoun, singular
- tiétekpossessive pronoun, plural
- tietekpossessive pronoun, plural
- önöképossessive pronoun, plural
- maguképossessive pronoun, plural
- üdvözlettelsincerely
Icelandic þinn, ykkar
- þinnpossessive pronoun, singular
- ykkarpossessive pronoun, plural
Italian tuo, tua
- tuopossessive pronoun, singular
- tuapossessive pronoun, singular
- tuoipossessive pronoun, singular
- tuepossessive pronoun, singular
- Suopossessive pronoun, singular
- Suapossessive pronoun, singular
- Suoipossessive pronoun, singular
- Suepossessive pronoun, singular
- il vostropossessive pronoun, plural
- la vostrapossessive pronoun, plural
- i vostripossessive pronoun, plural
- le vostrepossessive pronoun, plural
Latvian tavs, tavējs
- tavspossessive pronoun, singular
- tavējspossessive pronoun, singular
- tavējaispossessive pronoun, singular
- jūsupossessive pronoun, singular
- jūsējspossessive pronoun, singular
- jūsējaispossessive pronoun, singular
- jūsupossessive pronoun, plural
- jūsējspossessive pronoun, plural
- jūsējaispossessive pronoun, plural
Polish twój, twoja
- twójpossessive pronoun, singular
- twojapossessive pronoun, singular
- twojepossessive pronoun, singular
- twoipossessive pronoun, singular
- waszpossessive pronoun, plural
- waszapossessive pronoun, plural
- waszepossessive pronoun, plural
- wasipossessive pronoun, plural
Portuguese (o) teu, (o) seu
- (o) teupossessive pronoun, singular
- (o) seupossessive pronoun, singular
- (o) seupossessive pronoun, plural
- (o) vossopossessive pronoun, plural
Romanian al tău, a ta
- al tăupossessive pronoun, singular
- a tapossessive pronoun, singular
- ai tăipossessive pronoun, singular
- ale talepossessive pronoun, singular
- al vostrupossessive pronoun, plural
- a voastrăpossessive pronoun, plural
- ai voștripossessive pronoun, plural
- ale voastrepossessive pronoun, plural
Russian твой, ваш
- твой (tvoj)possessive pronoun, singular
- ваш (vaš)possessive pronoun, plural
- Ваш (Vaš)sincerely
Spanish tuyo, suyo
- tuyopossessive pronoun, singular
- suyopossessive pronoun, singular
- vuestropossessive pronoun, plural
- suyopossessive pronoun, plural
- voso (disused)possessive pronoun, plural
Swahili wako
- wakosincerely
Swedish din, ditt
- dinpossessive pronoun, singular
- dittpossessive pronoun, singular
- dinapossessive pronoun, singular
- erpossessive pronoun, plural
- ertpossessive pronoun, plural
- erapossessive pronoun, plural
Tamil உனது, உங்களுடையது
- உனது (uṉatu)possessive pronoun, singular
- உங்களுடையது (uṅkaḷuṭaiyatu)possessive pronoun, plural
- இப்படிக்கு (ippaṭikku)sincerely
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with yours
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
yours. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yours
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