your

[ yoor, yawr, yohr; unstressed yer ]
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pronoun
  1. (a form of the possessive case of you used as an attributive adjective): Your jacket is in that closet. I like your idea.: Compare yours.

  2. one's (used to indicate that one belonging to oneself or to any person): The consulate is your best source of information. As you go down the hill, the library is on your left.

  1. (used informally to indicate all members of a group, occupation, etc., or things of a particular type): Take your factory worker, for instance. Your power brakes don't need that much servicing.

Origin of your

1
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English ēower, genitive of ye1); cognate with Danish jeres, Dutch jouw, German euer; akin to Armenian jer, Latvian jūsu

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How to use your in a sentence

  • Stretch-your-necks, wags and grind hunters, supplied Jerry, now sufficiently aroused to join in the conversation.

  • He had done rough work in Central Asia, and had seen rather more help-your-self fighting than most men of his years.

    Soldier Stories | Rudyard Kipling
  • Sat Bhai has many members, and perhaps before they jolly-well-cut-your-throat they may give you just a chance for life.

    Kim | Rudyard Kipling
  • Opposite is a little, hold-your-own school-mistressy young person in pince-nez.

    Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
  • Such was the difference between the costume and arms of Master Rend-your-Soul and that of his servant.

British Dictionary definitions for your

your

/ (jɔː, jʊə, unstressed ) /


determiner
  1. of, belonging to, or associated with you: your nose; your house; your first taste of freedom

  2. belonging to or associated with an unspecified person or people in general: the path is on your left heading north; this lotion is for your head only

  1. informal used to indicate all things or people of a certain type: your part-time worker is a problem

  2. your actual British informal (intensifier): here is your actual automatic tin-opener

Origin of your

1
Old English eower, genitive of ye 1; related to Old Frisian jūwe, Old Saxon euwa, Old High German iuwēr

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