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yours truly

yours truly phrase: used to close a note or letter.

Phrase

yours truly

  1. (idiomatic) Used to close a note or letter.
    • Please write back soon! Yours truly, Alice.

Pronoun

yours truly

  1. (humorous, idiomatic, informal) I, me, or myself.
    • This one was created by yours truly.
    • Miss Lydgate, Miss de Vine, little Chilperic and yours truly were bridesmaids, with the Warden to give the bride away.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

yours truly meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Tagalog

yours truly in Tamil

தங்கள் உண்மையான, தங்கள் மெய்யான

yours truly in Urdu

آپ کا خیر طلب, تمہارا خیر طلب

yours truly in Tagalog

closing in a note or letter
sumasainyo, sumasaiyo, lubos na sumasainyo

Origin of yours truly

Recorded in the late 1700s as a closing in a letter. Since the mid-1800s for "I", "me", or "myself".

Words formed from yours truly

Questions about yours truly

What does yours truly mean?
Yours truly means used to close a note or letter.
What is yours truly in Tamil?
Yours truly in Tamil is தங்கள் உண்மையான, தங்கள் மெய்யான. See Yours truly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is yours truly?
Yours truly can be a phrase or a pronoun.

Words near yours truly in the dictionary

  1. yours
  2. yours ever
  3. yours faithfully
  4. yours sincerely
  5. yours trulies
  6. yours truly
  7. yours'd
  8. yours'll
  9. yours've
  10. yourself
  11. yourselfs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yours truly (page history and authors); yours truly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yours truly (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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