you English
Alternative forms
* ye
* ya, yah, yer, yeh, y', yo, yu (informal or eye dialect)
* -cha
* -ja
* u
* yoo (eye dialect)
* yew
* youe, yow, yowe (obsolete)
Pronoun
(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XLII:
- And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you , saying, Ye are spies [...].
* (William Shakespeare), Richard III :
- If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XIX:
- And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city.
* 1975 , Joseph Nazel, Death for Hire :
- You'd better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.
(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
* (Thomas Malory), Le Morte Darthur , Book VIII:
- I charge you , as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.
(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- Both of you should get ready now.
- You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
(subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales , Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
- certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].
* 1814 , (Jane Austen), Mansfield Park :
- You' are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but ' you need not be afraid.
(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
* 2001 , Polly Vernon, The Guardian , 5 May 2001:
- You' can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, ' you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?
Usage notes
* Originally, , respectively.)
* In some forms of English, are all but nonexistent.
* Although , or youse (though not all of these are completely equivalent or considered Standard English).
* The pronoun is usually omitted in imperative sentences, but need not be. In affirmative imperatives, it may be included before the verb (You go right ahead''; ''You stay out of it''); in negative imperatives, it may be included either before the ''don't'', or, more commonly, after it (''Don't you dare go in there''; ''Don't you start now ).
* See for other personal pronouns.
Synonyms
*
*: thou
*: ye
*: yer (UK eye dialect)
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*: all of you (plural)
*: you all
*: you + number
*: ye
*: yous/youse
*: y'all, all y'all (Southern US)
*: ya'll (AAVE)
*: you-uns (Midwestern US and Appalachia)
*: yinz
*: you guys/you gals
*: you lot (UK)
*: allyou (Caribbean)
*: yer (UK eye dialect)
* , ye, to you, to thee, to ye
* ye, to you, to ye, to you all
* (one) one, people, they, them
Derived terms
* you're
Determiner
( en determiner)
The individual or group spoken or written to.
- Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
Used before epithets for emphasis.
- You idiot!
Verb
( en verb)
To address (a person) using the pronoun you'', rather than ''thou .
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mother English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ).
Noun
( en noun)
A (human) female who (a) s a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.
- I am visiting my mother'''(a) today.'' — ''My sister-in-law has just become a '''mother'''.(b)'' — ''Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the '''mother (c) are conveyed to the fetus.
* 1988 , Robert Ferro, Second Son ,
- He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.
* 1991 , (Susan Faludi), The Undeclared War Against American Women ,
- The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother .
A female parent of an animal.
- The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
(figuratively) A female ancestor.
* 1525 , ,
- And Ada[Adam] called his wyfe Heua[Eve] because she was the mother of all that lyveth
* 1844 , , Fragment on the Church , Volume 1, page 17 ,
- But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
(figuratively) A source or origin.
- The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
* 1606', '', Act 4, Scene 3, '''1866 , George Steevens (editor), ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare , page 278 ,
- Alas, poor country: / Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot / Be call'd our mother , but our grave:
* 1844 , , Fragment on the Church , Volume 1, page 17 ,
- But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
(when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
- Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
(figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
(figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
* The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. –Judges 5:7 , KJV.
* Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. –Galatians 4:26 , KJV.
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
(obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See also
* metro-
Antonyms
* (with regards to gender) father
* (with regards to ancestry) daughter, son, child
Hypernyms
* (a female parent) parent
Coordinate terms
* (a female parent) father
Derived terms
* antimother
* be mother
* biological mother
* birth mother
* foster mother
* grandmother, great-grandmother
* Mother City
* Mother Earth
* motherfucker
* Mothering Sunday
* mother-in-law
* motherland
* motherload
* mother lode
* Mother's Day
* mother-to-be
* mother wit
* motherwort
* refrigerator mother
* stepmother
* surrogate mother
Verb
( en verb)
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
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- She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
References
* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company 2003.
Etymology 2
Calque of Arabic .
Noun
( en noun)
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- "The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun." — (Saddam Hussein)
Related terms
* mother of all
Etymology 3
Shortened from (motherfucker)
Alternative forms
* mutha
Noun
( en noun)
(euphemistic, coarse, slang) Motherfucker.
(euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example.
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Synonyms
* MF, mofo, motherfucker, mutha
Statistics
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Etymology 4
Coined from .
Alternative forms
* moth-er
Noun
( en noun)
(nonstandard) A cat that catches moths.
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