theirspronoun
uk/ðeəz/us/ðerz/A2 the one(s) belonging to or connected with them:
Which children are theirs?
I think she's a relation of theirs.
Theirs is that little house with the big tree outside.
More examples
- The Taylors had the same suitcase as us, and we accidentally picked up theirs.
- I'd love a house like theirs - I'm so envious!
- Our school uniform is much nicer than theirs, don't you think?
- The neighbours have erected a huge fence between our house and theirs.
- Your name was spelled correctly in the copy we gave to the printers, so the mistake was definitely theirs, not ours.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: possessive forms
- hers
- his
- its
- mine
- my
- our
- ours
- s
- the
- their
- thine
- thy
- us
- yer
- your
- yours