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your'n

your'n is the alternative form of yourn.

Meaning of yourn

Pronoun

yourn

  1. (Appalachia, especially, obsolete outside UK and US dialects) Yours.
    • When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341

Origin of your'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of yourn as a shortening of your one or your own.

Questions about your'n

What is your'n the alternative form of?
Your'n is the alternative form of yourn.

Words near your'n in the dictionary

  1. your wish is my command
  2. your words, not mine
  3. Your Worship
  4. Your Worshipfulness
  5. your&
  6. your'n
  7. your's
  8. Yourcenarian
  9. youre
  10. yourn
  11. Yourofsky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: your'n (page history and authors); yourn (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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