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yores

yores is the eye dialect spelling of yours.

Meaning of yours

Pronoun

yours (plural yours)

  1. 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.
  2. (informal) Your house or home.
    • Let's go over to yours.
  3. Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
    • Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours,

Questions about yores

What is yores the eye dialect spelling of?
Yores is the eye dialect spelling of yours.

Words near yores in the dictionary

  1. yordim
  2. Yordy
  3. Yordys
  4. yore
  5. yored
  6. yores
  7. yoretime
  8. yorga
  9. yorgah
  10. yorgahs
  11. yorgas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yores (page history and authors); yours (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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