my

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my

[mahy]
pronoun
1.
(a form of the possessive case of I used as an attributive adjective): My soup is cold.
interjection
2.
Also, my-my. (used as an exclamation of mild surprise or dismay): My, what a big house this is! My-my, how old he looks!

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My is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1125–75; Middle English mī, variant of mīn, Old English mīn; see mine1


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Example Sentences
  • It added little to my existing knowledge and did not provide a cultural awakening.
  • My friend who believes in ghosts sees faces of ancestors in photographs.
  • Towns can be said to be alive or dead, but in the case of my town, it's so alive you can eat it.
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my-

variant of myo- before some vowels: myalgia.

I

[ahy] pronoun, nominative I, possessive my or mine, objective me; plural nominative we, possessive our or ours, objective us; noun, plural I's.
pronoun
1.
the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself.
noun
2.
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
3.
Metaphysics. the ego.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i; Old English ic, ih; cognate with German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, OCS azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám


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World English Dictionary
my1 (maɪ)
 
determiner
1.  of, belonging to, or associated with the speaker or writer (me): my own ideas; do you mind my smoking?
2.  used in various forms of address: my lord; my dear boy
3.  used in various exclamations: my goodness!
 
interj
4.  an exclamation of surprise, awe, etc: my, how you've grown!
 
[C12 mī, variant of Old English mīn when preceding a word beginning with a consonant]

my2
 
the internet domain name for
Malaysia

MY
 
abbreviation for
motor yacht

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Word Origin & History

my
developed c.1200 as mi, reduced form of mine used before words beginning in consonants except h- (my father, but mine enemy), and before all nouns beginning 14c. As interjection, 18c., probably a shortened form of my God!
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Medical Dictionary

My abbr.
myopia

my- pref.
Variant of myo-.

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Computing Dictionary

my definition

networking
The country code for Malaysia.
(1999-01-27)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
my
  1. Burmese

  2. million years

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