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you are welcome

you are welcome phrase: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, are, welcome. Also the alternative form of you're welcome.

Phrase

you are welcome!

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, are, welcome.
    • You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Council with The Munchkins”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 21

Also used as

you are welcome is also the alternative form of you're welcome.

Questions about you are welcome

What does you are welcome mean?
You are welcome means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, are, welcome.
What part of speech is you are welcome?
You are welcome is a phrase.

Words near you are welcome in the dictionary

  1. you and which army
  2. you and whose army
  3. you and yours
  4. you are never too old to learn
  5. you are the doctor
  6. you are welcome
  7. you are what you eat
  8. you ask me, I ask who
  9. you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
  10. you beauty
  11. you bet

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