thine

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ðaɪn/(UK)

Definition of thine

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

det

  1. (Early, Modern, archaic)Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
    “Thine oxe shall be slaine before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shall bee giuen vnto thine enemies, and thou shalt haue none to rescue them.”
    “Thine alabaster cities gleam / Undimmed by human tears!”
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det

  1. (Early, Modern, archaic)Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
    “Thine oxe shall be slaine before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shall bee giuen vnto thine enemies, and thou shalt haue none to rescue them.”
    “Thine alabaster cities gleam / Undimmed by human tears!”
  2. (alt-of, honorific)Honorific alternative letter-case form of thine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
    “Forth on Thine errands send us / To labour for Thy sake.”

pron

  1. (Early, Modern, archaic)Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.
    “But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine / Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699”
  2. (alt-of, honorific)Honorific alternative letter-case form of thine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

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Etymology

From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.

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