mine
/ˈmaɪ.ɪn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.04 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
That or those belonging to me.
pron
That or those belonging to me.
pron
That or those belonging to me.
pron
That or those belonging to me.
Example Sentences
- "The house itself is mine, but the land is not."
- "These books are mine."
- "Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father."
- "Mine has been a long journey."
- "‘My name’s Felix Leiter,’ said the American. ‘Glad to meet you.’ ‘Mine’s Bond - James Bond.’"
- "Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend."
Etymology
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.