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you-all

you-all is the alternative spelling of you all.

Meaning of you all

Pronoun

you all

  1. All of you; plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
    • I'm very happy to see you all.
  2. (Southern US, colloquial, idiomatic) You (with singular or plural referent); y'all.
    • I am really longing to see you “all”—as the Southerners say—and aren't you coming east this summer?1926, Hart Crane, letter, 2 March

Questions about you-all

What is you-all the alternative spelling of?
You-all is the alternative spelling of you all.

Words near you-all in the dictionary

  1. you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
  2. you've got to laugh
  3. you've gotta be kidding me
  4. you've said a mouthful
  5. you'ven't
  6. you-all
  7. you-alls
  8. you-know-what
  9. you-know-who
  10. you-pick
  11. you-picks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you-all (page history and authors); you 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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