yours.
That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
Meaning & usage
That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.
Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.
Your house or home.
Let's go over to yours.
Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,
Where this word comes from
From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.
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