Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.
- adj. A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.
- adj. Informal Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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. While plural in form and original meaning, it is now commonly also used, like the nominative you, in addressing an individual.
Wiktionary
- pro. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
- pro. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
- pro. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- From Old English ēower. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English ēower, genitive of gē, ye; see you. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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?”
Consumer Reports: Got questions about health reform’s immediate changes?
“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!”
“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
“But your calling me a bitch - and every other radical feminist too - does say something about *your* character, I'm afraid.”
“People, this is your net income…..your taxes will not increase if you are below this level.”
“Sure, she can make one that resembles your piece, but no one will ever have *your* piece of jewelry.”
“For all your jury-rigging..your cake actually looks better than the Bon Appetite picture.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And yet when faced with the prospect of someone calling you on your stubbornness - **your** stubbornness which has cost thousands of Americans **their**”
Exclusive: Olbermann to Blast Iraq Compromise - Swampland - TIME.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘your’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...grow, greatest country, greatest, grow the economy, great nation, great decisions, great, government, great NATIONAL su..., good times, good job, good and generous... and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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everything
everythin?
a, i, aardvark, abdominals, any, anti-, ash, actuall, actually, add, abs, ass and 43 more...
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Kangaroo Words 2
Kangaroo words with joey-antonyms, e.g., pest/pet
pest, friend, giant, cremate, covert, there, feast, wonderful, animosity, inattentive, electrocuted, rectitude and 54 more...
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core words
my, I, mine, your, his, hers, him, her, their, theirs, our, ours and 34 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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Frequently Misused Words
words that are particularly frustrating to hear misused
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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aparrish's Words
the, this, and, a, that, i, me, you, him, her, she, he and 96 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Words that forced me to abandon pedag...
you're, your, their, there, they're, affect, effect, jealousy, envy, to, two, too and 15 more...
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words
love, free, your, still, fly, fires, run, forecast, weather, spaghetti, mirror, poker and 1 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for your.
oroboros yOUR
"What's mine is mine; what's yours is ours!" Apr 29, 2008
jennarenn Oh come on, that was excellent! Well done, seanahan. Jul 27, 2007
reesetee Heehee. Jul 26, 2007
uselessness Boooo! *tomatolaunch* Jul 26, 2007
seanahan People didn't make that mistake back in the days of your. Jul 26, 2007
reesetee Ouch. Ow. That hurts to read. Jul 26, 2007
uselessness "YOUR AN IDIOT!!!" Jul 26, 2007