THEIR

Definition: THEIR

THEIR

Pronoun & adjective

1. The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "THEIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: THEIR

Scottish (it, will say, would say : theirteadh ris).

Please tell me that their lawyer hasn't pinned their hopes on a phone bill (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Their democratic flavor doesn't suit my palate, Louis (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese (Benny and Joon ; writing credit: Barry Berman)

These silly writers let their imaginations run away with them (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

Where tha girls shake their booties (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

OPening their eyeballs eyeballs (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant)

They get'choo caught in their spell (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (references; author: Bob Hope)

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. (references; author: Mark Twain)

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. (references; author: Woody Allen)

All men are idiots...and I married their king. (references; author: unknown)

Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names. (references; author: unknown)

Are Roland and Sally rallying here in their lorry? (references; author: unknown)

Laura and Larry rarely lull their rural roosters to sleep. (references; author: unknown)

Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side. (references; author: unknown)

The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders. (references; author: unknown)

They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and the volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills. (references; author: unknown)

Things in Their Season (1974)

They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)

Doing Their Thing (1971)

The World at Their Feet (1970)

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Textile Fibers and Their Wastes Excluding Wool Tops in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Textile Fibers and Their Wastes excluding Wool Tops Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Textile Fibers and Their Wastes excluding Wool Tops Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Textile Fibers and Their Wastes excluding Wool Tops (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Textile Fibers and Their Wastes excluding Wool Tops (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Song of Haiti: Dr. Larry and Gwen Mellon and their Hospital at Deschapelles (reference)

• The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (reference)

• Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies (reference)

• Mental Disorders, Alcohol-And Drug-Related Problems: International Perspectives on Their Diagnosis and Classification (Intl Congress Series, No 669) (reference)

• Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas Treasury for Kids: A Story a Day from December 1st through Christmas for Kids and Their Families (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Stochastic Processes & Their Applications (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• I'll Fly Away - with Bill and Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (reference)

• The Time of Their Lives (reference)

• They Died with Their Boots on (reference)

• WWE King Of The Ring 1998 - Off With Their Heads (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Two young women can be seen behind some plant leaves. They seem to be picking some berries on a sunny day. These women are members of a larger Mormon family who are being studied for their low rate of cancer deaths. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Several adolescent women are painting a fence on a summer day. A farmhouse and mountains can be seen in the background of Utah landscape. These young women are part of a larger Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Cotton treated with 0.5% Permethrin is collected by rodents to take back to their nests to kill fleas, preventing the transmission of Bubonic Plague & Colorado Tick Fever by such fleas and ticks to other rodents and people. Credit: CDC.

All woodrat species are quick to occupy, and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC.

When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a ... Credit: NASA.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have found, to their surprise, that a ... Credit: NASA.

These cloud formations were seen over the western Aleutian Islands. Their color variations are probably due to differences in temperature and in the size of water droplets that make up the clouds. Credit: NASA.

Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA.

Laysan ducks waddling through their dinner of Laysan flies. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Meat for dinner - sometimes the surveyors had to hunt their own food Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Earls and barons shall not be amerced except through their peers, and only in accordance with the degree of the offense. (reference)

I could not forfeit their lives; they were not mine to forfeit. (Second Treatise of Government)

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. (reference)

Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. (reference)

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (reference)

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. (reference)

Ought the judges to close their eyes on the constitution, and only see the law? (reference)

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. (reference)

Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." (Abraham Lincoln)

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. (The Gettysburg Address)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was, of course, the object of their joint dislike

He then signed it himself, and my Lady and the Chancellor added their names as witnesses

They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors, and never invite them round to dinner

If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this

The rays of their glory empurple their suite

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind

The fellows were struggling and groaning and their legs were rubbing and kicking and stamping

O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit

Grape blossoms shed their tiny petals and the hard little beads become green buttons, and the buttons grow heavy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Their cause is unknown. (references)

Their feet are whitish. (references)

Others leave their head uncovered. (references)

Business

Components make their way around China slowly. (references)

It is courteous to address them by their titles. (references)

Greeks love the idea of owning their own business. (references)

Children

Dominican Republic

In return for their work they are given basic housing. (references)

Somalia

Parents generally pay fees for their children's education. (references)

Colombia

In 70 to 80 percent of cases, children know their abusers. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Many had their homes destroyed. (references)

Bahrain

Some small groups worship in their homes. (references)

Oman

Such tapes may or may not be returned to their owners. (references)

Discrimination

Romania

The two houses had not reconciled their versions by year's end. (references)

Georgia

Ethnic Armenians, Azeris, Greeks, Abkhaz, Ossetian, and Russian communities usually communicate in their native languages or in Russian. (references)

Bhutan

It claims that ethnic Nepalese fill 22 percent of government jobs, which is slightly less than their proportion of the total population. (references)

Economic History

Austria

Their Website is www.wko.at. (references)

Tanzania

Their Commercial Newsletter. (references)

Spain

On behalf of their principal. (references)

Human Rights

Philippines

Their cases remained open at year's end. (references)

Estonia

Their convictions were under appeal at year's end. (references)

Bangladesh

If their sentences are upheld, they may be hanged. (references)

Indigenous People

Gabon

Pygmies who complained about their situations often were beaten. (references)

Sri Lanka

Some Veddas still complain that they are being pushed off of their land. (references)

Guatemala

They subsequently were transferred to Zacapa where their statements were taken. (references)

Minorities

Azerbaijan

Most shield their identity or try to leave Azerbaijan. (references)

Nepal

Some reportedly have been forced to leave their villages. (references)

Burma

Ethnic minority groups generally use their own primary languages. (references)

Political Economy

Eritrea

Their whereabouts were unknown at year's end. (references)

Thailand

Their influence in politics has been diminishing. (references)

Mexico

The states have few means of raising their own revenues. (references)

Political Rights

Mauritania

Their administrative staff is independent of the Government. (references)

Turkey

Elected HADEP officials were able to perform their duties during the year. (references)

Fiji

With these events, citizens lost the right to change their government peacefully. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

Their web site is www.eib.org. (references)

Malaysia

Most banks have completed their merger plans. (references)

Nepal

Promoters can sell their shares and repatriate capital. (references)

Travel

Panama

Callers dial 202-647-9225 from their modem. (references)

Austria

Please consult their website: www.anto.com/meetanto.html. (references)

Italy

Hotels automatically register their guests with the police. (references)

Women

Qatar

Muslim wives have the right to inherit from their husbands. (references)

Algeria

Only males are able to confer citizenship on their children. (references)

Jordan

Men are able to divorce their spouses more easily than women. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

Their victims included 101 boys and 66 girls. (references)

Poland

If they try to flee, their legs may be broken. (references)

Ghana

The IRA governs trade unions and their activities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Their power

Their beauty

Their testimony

Their prey

Their ornament

Their taking or possessing vision

Their sheaves

Their affliction

Their curse

Their strength

Their breasts

Their covering

Their bird

Their strength

Their sign

Their lowing

Their touch

Their beauty

Their power

Their hasting

Their army

Expressions using "THEIR": demand for road use, accidents and their gravity ♦ he reads in their hearts ♦ i was not a tool in their hands! ♦ in their right minds ♦ let things take their course ♦ make smb. aware of their responsibility ♦ making smb. aware of their responsibility ♦ Model for Energy Supply Systems and their General Environmental Impact ♦ Netherlands Federation of Centres for Unmarried Mothers and their Children ♦ of their own ♦ on their own ♦ put smb. off their food ♦ their game is up! ♦ they ought to know their place. Additional references.

Ending with "THEIR": broad-their, elsewhere-their, estates-their, eye-their, idi-their, of-their, only-their.

Containing "THEIR": birds-wiv-their-jugs-aht, chop-off-their-willies, suffering-for-their-art, well-past-their-sell-by-date, what-were-their-chances.

Afrikaans

sy (her, his, its, she), hulle (her, his, its, them, they, to, to them), haar (her, his, its, she). (various references)

Albanian

i tyre, e tyre. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هم (care, concern, matter, reck, solicitude, them, they, those, trouble, worry), ‏هن (them, they, this, those). (various references)

Bulgarian 

техен. (various references)

Catalan

seva (his, its, your), seu (his, its, your). (various references)

Chinese 

亓 (her, his, its), 他们 (Them, They). (various references)

Czech

svùj (his, its, your), jejich (theirs). (various references)

Danish

sit (her, his, its), sin (her, his, its). (various references)

Dutch

hun (her, his, its, them, they), haar (hair, hair of the head, hairs, her, his, its, she). (various references)

Esperanto

sia (her, his, its), ilia. (various references)

Faeroese

sín (her, his, its). (various references)

Farsi 

مال ایشان , مال انها, خودشان (Selves, Themselves), شان (Dignity, Grandeur, Importance, Rank, Status). (various references)

Finnish

-nsa (her, his, its), niiden (theirs), heidän (theirs). (various references)

French

leur (them, to them), leurs. (various references)

Frisian

syn (be, her, his, its). (various references)

German

ihre (her, hers, theirs, your, yours), ihr (her, hers, its, thou, to her, ye, you, you all, your). (various references)

Greek 

αυτών των, τουσ (them), ο δικός τους. (various references)

Hungarian

-ok, -ük, -ök. (various references)

Icelandic

sinn (her, his, its). (various references)

Indonesian

mereka (them, they). (various references)

Irish

a (her, his, its). (various references)

Italian

loro (theirs, them, themselves, they, ye, you, your, yours), di loro (theirs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

音訓索引 (index listing kanji by their Chinese and Japanese pronunciations), 隣保事業 (living among the poor while striving to improve their conditions), 逃散 (farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions), 諸子 (Chinese sages or their works, gentlemen, you, you or them), 目引き袖引き (catching someone's attention by winking and tugging at their sleeve), 狸囃子 (racoon dogs drumming on their stomachs), マネーフロー分析 (kind of bicycle favored by housewives running errands around their neighborhood, mafia, maharaja, Mahatma, mahogany, Mahomet, malaria, Malibu, Mama, management, manager, mannequin, mannequin girl, manometer, maracas, maraschino, marathon, Maya, mayonnaise, monetarism, money laundering, money market, money-flow analysis, moneymaker, muff, muffin, muffler, scarf), 数え年 , 彼らの助力に依って (by dint of their help), コマ割り (comic book, comic books, comic market, comic opera, comical, comics, commission, commissioner, commit, commuter, commuter marriage, commuter service, convention where amateur manga artists sell their work, panel layout), コカの木 (coca tree, Coca-Cola, cocaine, cockpit, cocoa, COCOM, COCOM list, Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Area, coquette, coquetterie, coquettish, cuckoo, obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle, shell), 両陛下 (the Emperor and Empress, Their Majesties). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たぬきばやし (racoon dogs drumming on their stomachs), おんくんさくいん (index listing kanji by their Chinese and Japanese pronunciations), ママチャリ (kind of bicycle favored by housewives running errands around their neighborhood), しょし (bibliography, bookstore, Chinese sages or their works, gentlemen, illegitimate child, opinions, original intention, thoughts, you, you ladies, you or them), かぞえどし, かれらのじょりょくによって (by dint of their help), りょうへいか (the Emperor and Empress, Their Majesties), りんぽじぎょう (living among the poor while striving to improve their conditions), めひきそでひき (catching someone's attention by winking and tugging at their sleeve), コミケット (comic market, convention where amateur manga artists sell their work), コギャル (obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle), とうさん (bankruptcy, farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, father, fleeing in all directions, insolvency), ちょうさん (farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions). (various references)

Korean 

그들 (Them, They, Those). (various references)

Manx

oc (theirs), nyn (our, ours, theirs, your). (various references)

Papiamen

su (her, his, its), nan (her, his, its, they). (various references)

Pig Latin

eirthay.(various references)

Polish

swoje (her, his, its), swoja (her, his, its), swe (her, his, its), swój (her, his, its), ich. (various references)

Portuguese

seus (his, its, theirs, your, yours), seu (her, hers, his, his/her, its, theirs, your, your own, yours). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

sua (his/her, your), seus. (various references)

Romanian

lor (them). (various references)

Russian 

их (theirs, them). (various references)

Scottish

leò (by them, in their possession), 'gan (prep.pron.poss. at their). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

njihov (theirs). (various references)

Spanish

su (her, his, his or her, its, your), sus (halloo, her, his, its, theirs, your). (various references)

Sranan

en (her, his, its). (various references)

Swahili

-ao (her, his, its), ao (her, his, its), -ake (her, his, its), ake (her, his, its). (various references)

Swedish

deras (theirs). (various references)

Thai

ของเขาเหล่านั้น (theirs). (various references)

Turkish

onların. (various references)

Ukrainian

їхній (theirs), їх (theirs, them), свій (her, its, our, own, your, yours). (various references)

Welsh

nhw (them, they), eu. (various references)

Zulu

-bo. (various references)

helisua, iessui, soa, sua, suae, suam, suarum, suas, sue, suham, sui, suis, suisque, suo, suorum, suos, suum, suus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "THEIR": theirs, theirselves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"THEIR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hter, htfiid, Khebir, teir, terir, thaer, thaim, thair, thead, thear, theatr, theer, thei, theid, theif, theik, theil, thein, theire, theis, Theix, theol, theor, theorbo, theorm, ther, therg, therin, theyr, theyre, theys, thied, thieg, thiel, thiem, thien, thieo, thier, thiere, thir, thire, thirk, thiro, thoar, thoir, thrir, Tihomir, tveir, Tweirat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ither.

-1 letter: heir, hire, rite, thir, tier, tire.

-2 letters: eth, her, het, hie, hit, ire, rei, ret, the, tie.

-3 letters: eh, er, et, he, hi, it, re, ti.

+1 letter: cither, dither, either, heriot, hermit, hinter, hither, hitter, lither, mither, theirs, thrice, thrive, tither, whiter, wither, writhe, zither.

+2 letters: airthed, birthed, blither, chitter, cithern, cithers, cithren, diether, ditcher, dithers, dithery, erethic, etheric, fighter, freight, girthed, hairnet, hastier, heftier, heister, heretic, heriots, heritor, hermits, hetaira, hinters, hipster, hirsute, hitcher, hitters, hoister, hootier, inearth, inherit, itchier, lathier, lighter, luthier, mithers, mothier, mythier, neither, philter, philtre, pitcher, pithier, prithee, rebirth, refight, relight, resight, rethink, richest, righted, righter, shifter, shortie, sighter, slither, swither, techier, therein, theriac, thermic, theroid, thewier, thicker, thinker, thinner, thirled, thither, thorite, thrived, thriven, thriver, thrives, thymier, tighter, tithers, whither, whitier, whitter, withers, withier, writhed, writhen, writher, writhes, zithern, zithers.