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ðɛər; unstressed ðərtheir

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Wiktionary

  1. theirpronoun

    Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them.

  2. theirpronoun

    Belonging to someone of unspecified gender.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Theirnoun

    Of them: the pronoun possessive, from they.

    Etymology: ðeora , of them, Saxon.

    The round world should have shook
    Lions into civil streets, and citizens into their dens. William Shakespeare.

    For the Italians, Dante had begun to file their language in verse before Giovanni Boccaccio, who likewise received no little help from his master Petrarch; but the reformation of their prose was wholly owing to Giovanni Boccaccio. Dryden.

    Prayer we always have in our power to bestow, and they never in theirs to refuse. Richard Hooker, b. v.

    They gave the same names to their own idols which the Egyptians did to theirs. Walter Raleigh.

    The penalty to thy transgression due,
    And due to theirs which out of thine will grow. John Milton.

    Nothing but the name of zeal appears,
    ’Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. John Denham.

    Vain are our neighbours hopes, and vain their cares,
    The fault is more their languages than their’s. Wentworth Dillon.

    Which established law of theirs seems too strict at first, because it excludes all secret intrigues. Dryden.

    And reading wish, like theirs, our fate and fame. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. their

    In Modern English, they is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject.

ChatGPT

  1. their

    Their is a possessive pronoun that is used to indicate that something belongs to or is associated with a group of people or things previously mentioned. It is commonly used when referring to plural nouns or when unsure of the gender of the person or people being referred to.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Their

    the possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Their

    thār, poss. adj. pron. of or belonging to them. [A.S. þára, gen. pl. of the def. art. (replaced the older hira).]

Editors Contribution

  1. their

    Relating to a person or group of people.

    Their teachers were excellent, motivated and inspiring and have many ways to teach the students.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2020  

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    Their vs. There -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Their and There.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'their' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #38

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'their' in Written Corpus Frequency: #119

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of their in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of their in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of their in a Sentence

  1. Matt Anderson:

    Banks generally are doing pretty well on earnings, so there is capacity to increase their dividends.

  2. John Katko:

    This administration has even gone on to brazenly claim that the border is ‘ secure ’ and the border is ‘ closed, ’ despite astounding evidence to prove otherwise, it should come as no surprise that this administration has not prioritized providing the right resources and policies for CBP to effectively do their jobs.

  3. Elon Musk:

    I would call it,' forcibly imprisoning people in their homes' against all their Constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people's freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country, it's an outrage.

  4. Robert Corn-Revere:

    It reaffirms that the rule of law governs local law enforcement officials, no matter how convinced they are of their own rightness, the sheriff's naked threat of government power did not fool the court.

  5. Tina Mazzacane:

    The VMPI really seeks to increase opportunities and remove barriers for learning math so that every student can have that opportunity to achieve in their education and toward their career goals.

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