yours
UK /jɔː(ɹ)z/ · US /jɔɹz/ pronoun
Also a form of you
Forms your's
- pronoun 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.”
- pronoun (informal) Your house or home. “Let's go over to yours.”
- pronoun Written at the end of a letter, before the signature. “Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,”
Synonyms
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “yours”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details