What does THEIR mean?

Definitions for THEIR
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  

Suggested Resources

  1. Their

    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. Seymour Diamond:

    The best way to describe a migraine is that it is a sick headache, patients describe it as their brain is too big for their skull.

  2. Archibald MacLeish:

    Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

  3. Michelle Tilley:

    There are people who use marijuana recreationally, much like you would go and have a glass of wine or a beer, we think that there needs to be a safe, regulated product here in Oklahoma for those people to purchase without the threat of being arrested or put into jail and have their lives ruined.

  4. Madeleine Albright:

    I said that I think that people need to understand who has been really fighting on their behalf on issues that are of interest to women, and clearly Hillary Clinton has.

  5. Gaurang Shah:

    Looking at yesterday and today's recovery from the lows, my sense is that we are somewhere close to the bottom, my advice would be to avoid the small and mid-cap stocks right now because their valuations have run up to a great extent.

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