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theirs

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ðɛəz/
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/ðɛəz/ · /ðɛːz/ · /ðɛɚz/ (US) · /ðɛɹz/ (US) · /ðeːz/ · /ðiəz/ · /ðeəz/ · /ðeɹz/ · /ðɜː(ɹ)z/

Definition of theirs

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

pron

  1. That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
    “This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.”
    “Theirs cost a lot more than ours.”
    “That cat of theirs got into our garden again.”
    “The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.”
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pron

  1. That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
    “This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.”
    “Theirs cost a lot more than ours.”
    “That cat of theirs got into our garden again.”
    “The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.”
  2. (informal)Their house or home.
    “Let's go over to theirs.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English theires, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to their + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced theirn (from Middle English theiren, formed by analogy to mine, thine) in standard speech.

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13 words

4-letter words

29 words

3-letter words

25 words

2-letter words

13 words

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