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all y'all

all y'all is the plural form of you.

Meaning of you

Pronoun

you (second person, singular or plural, nominative or objective, possessive determiner your, possessive pronoun yours, singular reflexive yourself, plural reflexive yourselves)

  1. (nominative, objective, plural, second-person, singular, object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
    • Both of you should get ready now.
  2. (US, colloquial, nominative, objective, plural, pronoun) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
    • If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. (nominative, objective, plural, second-person, singular, object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
    • I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII
  4. (nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
    • You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
  5. (nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
    • You are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but you need not be afraid.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 208
  6. (colloquial, nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person) A person's favorite sports team.
    • I get that you're from Southeast Michigan, but I'm still surprised that you're a Detroit Lions fan. You have been on the receiving end of losing seasons for a while now.

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Determiner

all y'all

  1. The group spoken or written to.
    • Have all y'all ladies finished eating?

Synonyms of all y'all

Forms of all y'all

alternative formall of y'all
alternative formall o' y'all
alternative formy'all all

Origin of all y'all

From all + y'all (itself from you + all). Etymologically pleonastic.

Words formed from all y'all

Questions about all y'all

What does all y'all mean?
All y'all means the group spoken or written to.
What is all y'all the plural form of?
All y'all is the plural form of you.
What part of speech is all y'all?
All y'all is a determiner.

Words near all y'all in the dictionary

  1. all wet
  2. All Whites
  3. all whithers
  4. all wool and a yard wide
  5. all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
  6. all y'all
  7. all y'all's
  8. all your base are belong to us
  9. all'antica
  10. all's
  11. all's fair in love and war

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all y'all (page history and authors); you (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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