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yure

yure is the pronunciation spelling of your.

Meaning of your

Determiner

your

  1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
    • Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.
  2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
    • Then Ieſus ſaid vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 6:7, column 1
  3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
    • Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
  4. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
    • Your man just bought a new car.

Noun (1)

yure (uncountable)

  1. (Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
    • Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine
    • Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics

Noun (2)

yure (plural yures)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) udder

Forms of yure

pluralyures
alternative formewer
alternative formure

Origin of yure

From Middle English ȝowre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder.

Questions about yure

What does yure mean?
Yure means hair.
What is yure the pronunciation spelling of?
Yure is the pronunciation spelling of your.
What part of speech is yure?
Yure is a noun.
What is the plural of yure?
The plural of yure is yures.

Words near yure in the dictionary

  1. Yurats
  2. Yuraygir
  3. Yurchak
  4. Yurchaks
  5. Yurchi
  6. yure
  7. yurei
  8. Yurek
  9. Yureks
  10. yuremamine
  11. Yurembam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yure (page history and authors); your (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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