yours

[yoorz, yawrz, yohrz]

pronoun

1. (a form of the possessive case of you used as a predicate adjective).

   Which cup is yours? Is she a friend of yours?

2. that which belongs to you.

   Yours was the first face I recognized.

yours

/ jɔːz, jʊəz /

pronoun

1. something or someone belonging to or associated in some way with you

   I've eaten yours

2. your family

   greetings to you and yours

3. used in conventional closing phrases at the end of a letter

   yours sincerely

   yours faithfully

4. belonging to or associated with you

5. humorous,  what would you like to drink?

Word History and Origins

Origin of yours¹

1250–1300; Middle English, equivalent to your + -s, as in his

Example Sentences

It’s true, you can add friends’ cameos, or allow others to spin up videos that include yours.

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Let that sink in: All of it’s yours.

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She recalls that a male colleague in Ireland replied: “Hey! We have children too! And like yours they have dinner at 6 p.m.”

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The Russian oligarch billionaire lifestyle can be yours for the potentially low, low price of tens of millions of dollars, courtesy of the U.S. government.

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In that interview you seemed to go out of your way to express your thoughts on gender with deference to people whose experience is different than yours.

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