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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: You \You\ ([=u]), pron. [Possess. {Your} ([=u]r) or {Yours} ([=u]rz); dat. & obj. {You}.] [OE. you eou, eow, dat. & acc., AS e['o]w, used as dat. & acc. of ge g[=e], ye akin to OFries iu io D. u, G. euch, OHG. iu dat., iuwih acc., Icel. y[eth]r, dat. & acc., Goth. izwis; of uncertain origin. [root]189. Cf {Your}.] The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under {Ye}. Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed. --Chaucer. Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place --Shak. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over --Prior. Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet properly always with a plural verb ``Are you he that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired ?'' --Shak. You and your are sometimes used indefinitely, like we they one to express persons not specified. ``The looks at a distance like a new-plowed land; but as you come near it you see nothing but a long heap of heavy, disjointed clods.'' --Addison. ``Your medalist and critic are much nearer related than the world imagine.'' --Addison. ``It is always pleasant to be forced to do what you wish to do but what until pressed, you dare not attempt.'' --Hook. You is often used reflexively for yourself of yourselves. ``Your highness shall repose you at the tower.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yours \Yours\ (["u]rz), pron. See the Note under {Your}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thou \Thou\, pron. [Sing.: nom. {Thou}; poss. {Thy}or {Thine}; obj. {Thee}. Pl.: nom. {You}; poss. {Your}or {Yours}; obj. {You}.] [OE. thou, [thorn]u, AS [eth][=u], [eth]u; akin to OS & OFries thu, G., Dan. & Sw du Icel. [thorn][=u], Goth. [thorn]u, Russ. tui, Ir & Gael. tu W. ti L. tu Gr sy`, Dor. ty`, Skr. tvam. [root]185. Cf {Thee}, {Thine}, {Te Deum}.] The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come? --Matt. xi 3. Note: ``In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty.'' --Skeat. Note: Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.