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You

/jʉː/

To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

📖 Definitions of "You"

verb

1
To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

pronoun

1
(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
"Both of you should get ready now."
2
(reflexive pronoun) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3
(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4
(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
"You are all supposed to do as I tell you."

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
thounoun	A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
theeverb	(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
yenoun	The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
yanoun	(UK dialectal, West Country, Northern England, Scotland) yea; yes
y'allverb	(ambitransitive, informal) To use the pronoun "y'all" (to).
you-all	—
all y'all	—
you guys	—
you lot	—
yousenoun	A surname from German.
yousnoun	—
yinz	—
yinsnoun	(philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.
yeznoun	—
thyself	—
yourself	—
yourselves	—
mind you	(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly UK) Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
screw younoun	An act of defiance and contempt.
more than you can shake a stick at	(idiomatic) Alternative form of more than one can shake a stick at. [Occurring in abundance; of a large quantity; many.]