Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Used as a modifier before a noun.
- adjective A person's; one's.
- adjective Informal Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of you: the original genitive of ye, you.
- Of you; belonging to you: used predicatively: now replaced by yours.
- Belonging to you: possessive and adjective in use, preceding the noun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun
you .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
- pronoun Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
- pronoun A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And when you touch something with your true heart and spirit like you obviously do..your essence is truly imprinted..you are forever immortal in that garden or space..your spirit embodies the land and the land embodies you!
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To take just one example that comes immediately to mind, if your family coverage is through a local HMO, what happens when your son graduates from college and moves halfway across the country, thousands of miles away from your in-network doctors and hospitals?
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But your calling me a bitch - and every other radical feminist too - does say something about *your* character, I'm afraid.
Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009
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But your calling me a bitch - and every other radical feminist too - does say something about *your* character, I'm afraid.
Radical Feminism Renee 2009
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Greg, I love how your big excuse for why your reporting was inaccurate was that you failed to follow ABC's link to the video, and yet you now apparently presume that all of TPM-EC's readers will follow * your* link to read your apology and pseudo-retraction (even when your link itself makes * no* reference to the fact that you will be apologizing).
ABC Mischaracterizes Obama's Alleged "Testy Exchange" With Reporter 2009
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For all your jury-rigging..your cake actually looks better than the Bon Appetite picture.
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I was mad when I read about your testing, and... sometimes I back off from saying stuff because as Lene so eloquently put, it is *your* life and I don't want to feel the right to barge in just because I care.
So was it worth it? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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People, this is your net income…..your taxes will not increase if you are below this level.
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Sure, she can make one that resembles your piece, but no one will ever have *your* piece of jewelry.
Betoj Designs: Vanessa Parker's Art Jewelry Scott Parker 2008
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The major stumbling block will always be this: You can be the smartest person in the world (or even in your little part of the world), but if the person you want justice -- or even plain fairness -- from is the dumbest person in the wall (or just the dumbest about *your* part of the world), you are limited by *his* lack of intelligence, *his* lack of fairness, *his* lack of wisdom.
Why Strike II Rogers 2007
uselessness commented on the word your
"YOUR AN IDIOT!!!"
July 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word your
Ouch. Ow. That hurts to read.
July 27, 2007
seanahan commented on the word your
People didn't make that mistake back in the days of your.
July 27, 2007
uselessness commented on the word your
Boooo! *tomatolaunch*
July 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word your
Heehee.
July 27, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word your
Oh come on, that was excellent! Well done, seanahan.
July 27, 2007
oroboros commented on the word your
yOUR
"What's mine is mine; what's yours is ours!"
April 29, 2008