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yall

yall is the alternative spelling of y'all.

Meaning of y'all

Pronoun

y'all (second-person plural nominative or objective, possessive determiner y'all's, possessive pronoun y'all's, reflexive y'allselves)

  1. (Appalachia, Caribbean, Singapore, Southern US, informal, nominative) You (plural).
    • [...] and this y'all know is true, [...]1631, William Lisle, The Faire Æthiopian
  2. (Southern US, nominative, objective, plural, second-person, African-American Vernacular) Everyone; everybody.
    • Hey y'all!
  3. (Southern US, nominative, objective, plural, rare, second-person) You (singular).
    • I made this for both y'all and your wife to enjoy.

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Questions about yall

What is yall the alternative spelling of?
Yall is the alternative spelling of y'all.

Words near yall in the dictionary

  1. Yalies
  2. Yalikavak
  3. yalis
  4. yalkaparidontid
  5. yalkaparidontids
  6. yall
  7. yalla
  8. Yalla-Y-Poora
  9. yallah
  10. yallahball
  11. Yallambie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yall (page history and authors); y'all (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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