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Definition: YOURS |
YOURSPronoun1. See the Note under Your. |
Date "YOURS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Crosswords: YOURS |
| Specialty definitions using "YOURS": Apparition ♦ Beard, Bird's Nest, Blenheim Steps ♦ Contemptible, Contemptuous ♦ Different than, Different to ♦ Giant, Gif Gaff, Glendoveer', God ♦ Handkerchiefs, Husband ♦ Log-rolling ♦ Needle, Nose Out of Joint ♦ penis war ♦ Sing my Music, and not Yours, Stone ♦ up your ass ♦ Warts. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "YOURS": Thou. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever (Indecent Proposal; writing credit: Amy Holden Jones) He ran from here like a whipped dog! I'm sure you can't wait for him to get back to making the decisions so you can stop sweating through that silk blouse of yours! (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Why yours alone (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) I thought the hardest part was that pressing need of yours to get your gun off. (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) | |
Lyrics | Oo baby, here I am, signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours, oh I'm yours (Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm yours; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) And I can trust yours too (Playas Gon' Play; performing artist: 3LW) IF IT COMES BACK TO YOU IT'S YOURS (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) What's yours and mine the fishing's fine (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) You're mine and I'm yours for the taking (Lay Your Hands On Me; performing artist: Bon Jovi) | |
Clever | His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.'' (references; author: Mark Twain) There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and Shithead's. (references; author: unknown) Many people lose their tempers merely by seeing you keep yours. (references; author: unknown) Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter. (references; author: unknown) If you follow in others' footsteps, you will never leave yours behind. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yours and Mine (1974) Mine and Ours Yours (1968) Yours for a Song (1961) The Verdict Is Yours (1958) Sincerely Yours (1955) | |
Song Titles | Baby I'm Yours (performing artist: Shai) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Donora : Next to Yours the Best Town in the USA / [U.S. Public Health Service photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | "The Choice Is Yours" : Alcohol & Drug Awareness Week 1987. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Yours to command--the railroads. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | My wife has slacks, too, and they're becoming like yours, especially when she's sitting down so the hips don't show. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yours in Brownieland--Palmer Cox. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Man- Ah got a swell idea!! Guess I'll put it in the suggestion box fast" - send yours in today. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Poles! Under the Polish flag, on to the fight - "For our liberty and yours!" Enlist to-day. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | William Caxton made his own ink, but you can have yours made by The Ault & Wiborg Co., Cincinnati / Louis Rhead, Weisbrodt, Cin. O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yours of recent date received and contents noted. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yours, Fanny Rice. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Self portrait" by Jeremy Lounds Commentary: "Shot of me by yours truly in my makeshift studio (i.e., in my bedroom with a sheet over the bunk bed :-)." | "Got Milk?" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "I don't know why I have been wanting to do a cow phto shoot. Where I live their is an agricultural farm just down the road that is run by the SIU (Southern Illinois University) Well it's actually about a mile away (far enough away that I don't smell it)" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world? |
Christina Rossetti | Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. |
Herodotus | But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. |
Iphicrates | My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. |
John Ruskin | Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours. |
Richard Realf | A place is yours when you know where all the roads go. |
Ronald Reagan | Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | The President has told you that it is his wish, as I am sure it is yours, that I should have full liberty to give my true and faithful counsel in these anxious and baffling times. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The man who fetches our letters every morning (one of our men, I forget his name) shall inquire for yours too and bring them to you. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Beautiful, charming, devastatingly intelligent, at last I'd got her to myself for a bit and was plying her with a bit of talk when this friend of yours barges up and says 'Hey doll, is this guy boring you |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But it is on yours, monseigneur |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | O God, I fear thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours, for this |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Then as to the claws upon your feet before and behind, they are so short and tender, that one of our Yahoos would drive a dozen of yours before him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These online communities can help you connect with a network of people whose concerns are similar to yours. (references) | |
If you show respect for your child’s viewpoint, he or she will be more likely to listen to and respect yours. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Now we come to a question that weighs very heavily on all our minds-on yours and mine. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We will not make this happen simply by making speeches, good or bad, yours or mine, but by hard work and hard decisions made with courage and with common sense. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Trevor, yours is the living spirit of brotherly love. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Fix your vision on a new century, your century, on dreams we cannot see, on the destiny that is yours and yours alone. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "YOURS" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "YOURS" is used about 4,237 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Pronoun (personal) | 99.95% | 4,235 | 2,322 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,237 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "YOURS": a friend of yours ♦ affectionately yours ♦ faithfully yours ♦ forever yours ♦ i remain respectfully yours ♦ i remain yours faithfullyjohn ♦ it is no business of yours ♦ it's no concern of yours ♦ respectfully yours ♦ roll my log and i'll roll yours ♦ scratch my back and i'll scratch yours ♦ sincerely yours ♦ this is no affair of yours ♦ what's yours in liquor? ♦ you and yours ♦ you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours ♦ yours affectionately ♦ yours ever ♦ yours faithfully ♦ yours respectfully ♦ yours sincerely ♦ yours to command ♦ yours truly ♦ yours truly!. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "YOURS": yours-in-hope. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "YOURS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | u s'n, julle s'n, joune. (various references) | |
Albanian | yti, tuajit, tuaji, tëndi, të tutë. (various references) | |
Arabic | لكما, لكم (box, bust, knock, punch, slug, sock, strike, to you), لكن (but, however, nevertheless, only, probably), لك (shellac, thine, thy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | твой (thine, your), ваш (your). (various references) | |
Chinese | 你的. (various references) | |
Czech | váš (your), tvùj (thy, your). (various references) | |
Dutch | het jouwe, de jouwe. (various references) | |
Esperanto | la via, la cia. (various references) | |
Farsi | مال خودشما(ضمیرملکی), مال شما (Your). (various references) | |
Finnish | teidän (your), sinun (your). (various references) | |
French | votre (your), vôtre, tes (your), son (your), les vôtres, les tiens, les tiennes, le vôtre, le tien, la vôtre, la tienne. (various references) | |
German | Ihre (her, hers, their, theirs, your), deine (thy, your). (various references) | |
Greek | υμέτεροσ, δικόσ σασ, δικόσ σου (your), δικός σας (your), δικός σου (thine, your). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מה תשתה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tietek (thine, your), tied (thine, thy, your), maguké (your), magáé (your), önöké (your), öné (your). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ykkar. (various references) | |
Italian | il vostro (your), i tuoi (thine, your). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 謹言 (Yours Sincerely...), 粛白 (Respectfully yours), 敬白 (Yours sincerely), 敬具 (Sincerely yours), 尊下 (Obediently yours), 不悉 (Very Sincerely Yours), 不乙 (Very Sincerely Yours), 不尽 (Very sincerely yours), 不宣 (Very sincerely yours), 不備 (defect, deficiency, imperfection, inadequacy, Yours in haste), 不一 (Very sincerely yours), 可祝 (Respectfully yours). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅくはく (lodging, Respectfully yours), そんか (Obediently yours, your house), きんげん (grave, maxim, sobersided, solemn, stern, wise saying, Yours Sincerely...), ふしつ (gluten, Very Sincerely Yours), ふび (defect, deficiency, imperfection, inadequacy, Yours in haste), ふせん (a tag or label, anti-war, label, slip, tag, universal suffrage, Very sincerely yours, war renunciation, wiring, women's suffrage), ふいつ (Very sincerely yours), ふじん (battle formation, female, heartlessness, inhumanity, lineup, madam, Mrs, Very sincerely yours, wife, woman), かしく (Respectfully yours), けいはく (frivolous, superficial, Yours sincerely), けいぐ (instruments of punishment, Sincerely yours). (various references) | |
Luganda | yo, lyo. (various references) | |
Manx | lhiats, ayds (thine). (various references) | |
Norwegian | din (your), deres (your). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yoursay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | seu (her, hers, his, his/her, its, their, theirs, your, your own). (various references) | |
Romanian | dumneavoastrã (your), cu plecãciune, ale voastre, al vostru, al tãu (thine), al dumneavoastrã (sincerely yours), al dumitale, ai voştri, a voastrã, a ta. (various references) | |
Russian | ваш (your). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vaš (your), tvoj (thine, thy, your). (various references) | |
Spanish | vuestro (your). (various references) | |
Swedish | er (you, your, yourself, yourselves). (various references) | |
Turkish | sizlerinki, sizinkiler, sizinki, seninkiler, seninki (thine), senínkí, sízínkí. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свій (her, its, our, own, their, your), своє, свої (your), своя, твій (thine, thy, your), твоє (your), твої (thine, your), твоя (your), ваше (your), ваша (your), ваши (your), ваш (your). (various references) | |
Welsh | eiddot (thine), eiddoch, eiddo (assets, belongings, hers, his, mine, ours, possessions, property, theirs, thine). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vester, vester vestra vestrum, vester, vestra, vestrum, vestra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 15, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de eipen autw teknon su pantote met emou ei kai panta ta ema sa estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At ipse dixit illi fili tu semper mecum es et omnia mea tua sunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa cwæþ he sunu: þu eart symle mid me: and ealle mine þing synt þine |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he seide to hym, Sone, thou art euer more with me, and alle my thingis ben thine. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sayd vnto him: Sonne thou wast ever with me and all that I have is thyne: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he said to him, Son, thou art ever with me: and all that I have is thine. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 15, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | Ang amahan mitubag kaniya, `Anak ko, sa kanunay nagpakig-uban ikaw kanako, ug ang tanang butang ko imo usab. |
| Chinese | 父 親 對 他 說 、 兒 阿 、 你 常 和 我 同 在 、 我 一 切 所 有 的 、 都 是 你 的 。 |
| Croatian | Nato æe mu otac: 'Sinko, ti si uvijek sa mnom i sve moje - tvoje je. |
| Danish | Men han sagde til ham: Barn! du er altid hos mig, og alt mit er dit. |
| Dutch | En hij zeide tot hem: Kind, gij zijt altijd bij mij, en al het mijne is uwe. |
| Finnish | Niin hän sanoi hänelle: `Poikani, sinä olet aina minun tykönäni, ja kaikki, mikä on minun omaani, on sinun. |
| French | Mon enfant, lui dit le père, tu es toujours avec moi, et tout ce que j`ai est à toi; |
| German | Er aber sprach zu ihm: Mein Sohn, du bist allezeit bei mir, und alles, was mein ist, das ist dein. |
| Haitian Creole | Papa a di li: Pitit mwen, ou toujou la avè m'; tout sa m' genyen se pou ou. |
| Hungarian | Az pedig monda néki: Fiam, te mindenkor én velem vagy, és mindenem a tiéd! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | 'Anakku,' jawab ayahnya, 'engkau selalu ada di sini dengan aku. Semua yang kumiliki adalah milikmu juga. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata bapanya kepadanya: Hai anakku, engkau ini senantiasa bersama-sama dengan aku, dan segala sesuatu hak aku itulah hak engkau. |
| Maori | Na ka mea tera ki a ia, E tama, kei ahau tonu koe, amu hoki aku mea katoa. |
| Norwegian | Men han sa til ham: Barn! du er alltid hos mig, og alt mitt er ditt; |
| Portuguese | Replicou-lhe o pai: Filho, tu sempre estás comigo, e tudo o que é meu é teu; |
| Rumanian | ,Fiule`, i -a zis tatql, ,tu kntotdeauna ewti cu mine, wi tot ce am eu este al tqu. |
| Russian | пО ЦЕ УЛБЪБМ ЕНХ: УЩО НПК! ФЩ ЧУЕЗДБ УП НОПА, Й ЧУЈ НПЕ ФЧПЕ, |
| Shuar | `Takui Aparí chicharuk "Uchirú, ámeka wijiai tuke pujame. Tura wi takakjana nusha Ashí áminuiti. |
| Spanish | Entonces su padre le dijo: "Hijo, tú siempre estás conmigo, y todas mis cosas son tuyas. |
| Swahili | Baba yake akamjibu: `Mwanangu, wewe uko pamoja nami siku zote, na kila nilicho nacho ni chako. |
| Swedish | Då sade han till honom: 'Min son, du är alltid hos mig, och all mitt är ditt. |
| Uma | "Na'uli' tuama-na: `Ana', iko-le tida dohe-ku oa' -ko-kona. Ihi' tomi-kule, iko wo'o pue' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "YOURS": yourself, yourselves. (additional references) | |
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"YOURS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ious, Lyrurus, mynours, oyers, Oyus, Pygurus, yauds, yoos, yorb, yores, yorp, yorq, yorx, Youern, youns, youre, yourg, yourn, yourse, yourz, yous, yoush, Youssou. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "YOURS" (pronounced yuh"rz, yô"rz , or yerz) |
| 4 | y uh" r z | cures, endures, obscures, secures. |
| 3 | -uh" r z | assures, boors, brochures, detours, ensures, insures, lures, matures, moors, reassures, tours. |
| 3 | -ô" r z | abhors, adores, cores, corps, bores, chores, deplores, doors, drawers, explores, floors, fours, gores, guarantors, ignores, implores, oars, ores, outdoors, pores, pours, restores, roars, scores, shores, soars, sores, spores, stores, underscores, wars, whores. |
| 3 | y er z | behaviors, clothiers, colliers, failures, figures, hoteliers, juniors, lawyers, Monsignors, saviors, sawyers, seniors, tenures. |
| 2 | -er z | absorbers, abusers, accelerometers, abductors, accumulators, accusers, achievers, acquirers, acquires, acres, actors, actuators, adapters, adjusters, administers, administrators, admirers, adulterers, advancers, adventurers, adventures, advertisers, advisers, advisors, afterburners, agers, aggressors, agitators, airliners, Alexanders, alligators, allocators, altars, alters, ambassadors, ambers, ammeters, amphitheaters, amplifiers, analyzers, ancestors, anchors, Angers, anglers, animators, announcers, answers, anteaters, antlers, appetizers, applicators, appraisers, appropriators, aquifers, arbiters, Arbitragers, arbitrageurs, arbitrators, architectures, askers, aspires, assemblers, assessors, asters, astrologers, astronomers, attackers, auditors, augers, augurs, authors, automakers, autoworkers, avers, aviators, conifers, conjectures, conjures, connectors, Conners, conquerors, conquers, conservators, considers, consolidators, conspirators, constrictors, constructors, consumers, containers, contenders, contractors, contributors, controllers, converters, cookers, coolers, Coopers, coordinators, copartners, copiers, coppers, coprocessors, copyreaders, copywriters, corners, cornflowers, coroners, corridors, cosponsors, costumers, Cougars, councilors, counsellors, counselors, babblers, babysitters, bachelors, backers, backfires, backwaters, badgers, bakers, ballplayers, bandleaders, bangers, bankers, banners, barbers, bargainers, Barkers, barometers, barriers, barristers, bartenders, bashers, bathers, batters, bearers, beaters, beavers, beekeepers, beepers, beggars, beginners, belabors, believers, bellflowers, bellwethers, benchers, benders. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: ours, rosy, sour, your. | |
-2 letters: ors, our, sou, soy, you. | |
-3 letters: or, os, oy, so, us, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-r-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: sourly, stoury. | |
+2 letters: cursory, dyvours, elusory, hydrous, ossuary, pylorus, savoury, suasory, succory, tryouts, voyeurs, yogurts. | |
+3 letters: bistoury, bodysurf, busywork, butyrous, courtesy, cousinry, crousely, cynosure, delusory, elytrous, grayouts, illusory, journeys, koupreys, outprays, overbusy, overbuys, porously, pyritous, robustly, rugosely, rugosity, scroungy, sudatory, surroyal, surveyor, touristy, tourneys, tutoyers, unsavory, uroscopy, urostyle, vouvrays, yoghurts, youngers, younkers, yourself. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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