determiner (the possessive form of I)
1 of or belonging to the speaker or writer:
Where's my passport? * My feet are cold.
2 used in exclamations to express surprise, etc:
My goodness! Look at the time!
3 used when addressing sb, to show affection:
my dear / darling / love
4 used when addressing sb that you consider to have a lower status than you:
My dear girl, you're wrong.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for my is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does my appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — my appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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