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yourn

yourn pronoun: yours.

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
    • Your room's in there, back of the office, an' you'll find some clothes there that the last man forgot to take with him. You ken have 'em, an' from the looks o' yourn you need 'em.1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC

Forms of yourn

alternative formyour'n

Origin of yourn

From Middle English youren. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, yours. See also ourn, hern. Cognate with West Flemish joen (“yourn”).

Words that rhyme with yourn

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Questions about yourn

What does yourn mean?
Yourn means yours.
What part of speech is yourn?
Yourn is a pronoun.

Words near yourn in the dictionary

  1. your&
  2. your'n
  3. your's
  4. Yourcenarian
  5. youre
  6. yourn
  7. Yourofsky
  8. Yourofskys
  9. yours
  10. yours ever
  11. yours faithfully

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