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Definitions for your
yʊər, yɔr, yoʊr; unstressed yəryour

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Wiktionary

  1. yourpronoun

    Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

  2. yourpronoun

    Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

  3. yourpronoun

    A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.

  4. Etymology: From eower.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Yourpronoun.

    Etymology: eower , Saxon.

    Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she’s outprized by a trifle. William Shakespeare.

    Every true man’s apparel fits your thief: if it be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big enough. If it be too big for your thief, your thief thinks it little enough; so every true man’s apparel fits your thief. William Shakespeare.

    There is a great affinity between coins and poetry, and your medallist and critick are much nearer related than the world imagine. Joseph Addison, on ancient Medals.

    A disagreement between these seldom happens, but among your antiquaries and schoolmen. Henry Felton, on the Classicks.

    Pray for this man and for his issue,
    Whose heavy hand hath bow’d you to the grave,
    And beggar’d yours for ever. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
    One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. William Shakespeare.

    This kiss, if it durst speak,
    Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:
    Conceive and fare thee well. ——
    —— Yours in the ranks of death. ———— William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    He is forsworn, if e’er those eyes of yours
    Behold another day break in the east. William Shakespeare.

    While the sword this monarchy secures,
    ’Tis manag’d by an abler hand than yours. Dryden.

    My wealth, my city and myself are yours. Dryden.

    It is my employment to revive the old of past ages to the present, as it is yours to transmit the young of the present to the future. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. your

    In Modern English, you is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers.

ChatGPT

  1. your

    "Your" is a possessive pronoun used to indicate ownership or association with the person or group being spoken to or referred to. It is usually used to show possession or responsibility for something.

  2. Your

    "Your" is a possessive pronoun used to indicate something that belongs to or is associated with the person or people being addressed or referred to. It denotes ownership or possession in relation to the person or group mentioned.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Your

    the form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you

  2. Etymology: [OE. your, our, eowr, eower, AS. ewer, originally used as the gen. of ge, g, ye; akin to OFries. iuwer your, OS. iuwar, D. uw, OHG. iuwr, G. euer, Icel. yar, Goth. izwara, izwar, and E. you. 189. See You.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Your

    ūr, pron. poss. of you: belonging to you: (Shak.) used to denote a class or species well known, the use implying something of contempt.—Yourn (prov.), yours. [A.S. eówer. Cf. Ye.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'your' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #80

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'your' in Written Corpus Frequency: #64

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of your in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of your in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of your in a Sentence

  1. President Tayyip Erdogan:

    The mayor (Imamoglu) is now saying Kanal Istanbul is not appropriate for here. Mind your own business.

  2. Hemant Mehta:

    Christians don't own December. Even if Christmas as a Christian holiday didn't exist right now, I think there would be plenty of reason that it makes sense to take a couple weeks off at the end of the year, when the weather isn't great, when everyone kind of needs a break from work, this is a nice way to just relax and spend time with your family. If it coincides with the majority's religious holiday, great.

  3. Jimmy Kimmel:

    If your baby is going to die and Read MoreHe doesn't have to, Read MoreHe shouldn't matter how much money you make.

  4. David Grabowski:

    I felt like we were all getting hit over the head originally and all roads led to vaccines, now, you have to find your own way.

  5. Matt Dalio:

    Information is so powerful ... what we want to do is to fill this product with the information that's relevant to their lives, no one in San Francisco is building a how-to-manage-your-cattle app, that's for sure.

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