your

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/jɔː(ɹ)/
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/jɔː(ɹ)/ · /jʊə(ɹ)/ · /jə(ɹ)/ · /jɔɹ/ · /jʊɹ/ · /jɝ/ · /jɚ/ · /jʊəɹ/ · /jɜ(ː)ɹ/ · /jɪʊɹ/ · /jɪəɹ/ · /jəɹ/ · /jʊɹ/(US) · /jɪɹ/(US) · /jo(ː)ɹ/ · /joə/ · /joʊ/

Definition of your

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

det

  1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
    “Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.”
    “Is this your cat?”
    “Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.”
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det

  1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
    “Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.”
    “Is this your cat?”
    “Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.”
  2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
    “Then Ieſus ſaid vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.”
  3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
    “Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.”
    “Your Show of Shows”
    “Your World with Neil Cavuto”
    “Not Your Average Travel Guide”
  4. (Ireland)That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
    “Your man just bought a new car.”
    “Have you seen what your one over there is doing?”

contraction

  1. (alt-of, contraction, misspelling)Misspelling of you're.
    “In a possible case of nominative determinism, [Harry] Styles clearly demonstrated his penchant for grammar at a 2015 show, adding an apostrophe and an E to a Philadelphia fan’s sign so it said “You’re so nice” rather than “your so nice” (he then wrote “thank you – love, Harry” and gave it back, in case there was any doubt about the sign’s message).”

pron

  1. (alt-of, honorific)Honorific alternative letter-case form of your, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).

Words you can make from your

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3-letter words

2 words

2-letter words

3 words

Hooks

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