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yw

yw is the abbreviation of you're welcome.

Meaning of you're welcome

Phrase

you're welcome!

  1. Used to acknowledge thanks; ritual reply to “thank you”.
    Synonyms:
    de nada
  2. Used (often preemptively) to imply that the speaker ought to be thanked.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you're, welcome.
    • No, I didn’t cook, but you’re welcome to try out the new kitchen.2016, Lynette Eason, Without Warning (Elite Guardians; 2), Revell, →ISBN

Phrase capitalized: YW

YW

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of you're welcome.
    • The first step, though, is selecting the best prompts and then crafting up some clever answers that can make your matches fall in love with you (or, you know, ask you out). The good news? We’ve taken care of all that below, so you can spend less time stressing about your profile and more time...2024 April 8, Lydia Wang, Morgan Sullivan, Rachel Varina, “24 Best Hinge Prompts to Actually Help Your Matches Get to Know You”, in Cosmopolitan

Questions about yw

What is yw the abbreviation of?
Yw is the abbreviation of you're welcome.
What part of speech is yw?
Yw is a phrase.

Words near yw in the dictionary

  1. Yvette
  2. Yvettes
  3. yvonite
  4. Yvonne
  5. yvory
  6. yw
  7. Ywain
  8. ywalked
  9. YWAM
  10. YWAMer
  11. YWAMers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yw (page history and authors); YW (page history and authors); you're welcome (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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