/jɔː(ɹ)z/, /jʊəz/, /jəz/
OriginFrom Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.
- That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
“If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.”
“Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.”
“Are all these socks yours?”
- 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,”
- alt-of, honorificHonorific alternative letter-case form of yours, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Formsyours(plural) · your's(alternative)