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you and yours

you and yours noun: yourself and your family or loved ones, usually in salutations.

Noun

you and yours pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) Yourself and your family or loved ones, usually in salutations.
    • He is always sincere, with his big grin and his wish of "Lots of luck to you and yours!"2000, Ken Beck, Jim Clark, The Andy Griffith Show Book, page 88
    • May the sun shine warm upon you and yours.2010, Peter G. Thomas, Pat Thomas, The Sineacham, page 14

Questions about you and yours

What does you and yours mean?
You and yours means yourself and your family or loved ones, usually in salutations.
What part of speech is you and yours?
You and yours is a noun.

Words near you and yours in the dictionary

  1. you all
  2. you alright
  3. you and what army
  4. you and which army
  5. you and whose army
  6. you and yours
  7. you are never too old to learn
  8. you are the doctor
  9. you are welcome
  10. you are what you eat
  11. you ask me, I ask who

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