our

See also: 'our and -our

English

Etymology

From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.

Pronunciation
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(UK)
  • enPR: ouə, IPA(key): /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/ or IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/
  • Homophone: hour or Homophone: are
  • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
(US)
  • enPR: our, IPA(key): /ˈaʊɚ/ or enPR: ar, IPA(key): /ɑɹ/, [ɑɹ], [ɑ˞]
  • Audio (US)(file)
    or
    Audio (US)(file)
  • Homophone: hour or Homophone: are
  • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
(General Australian)
  • enPR: ou(ə), IPA(key): /æɔ(ə)/ or IPA(key): /ɑː/
  • Homophone: ow (some dialects) or Homophone: are
  • Rhymes: -aʊ or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Determiner

our

  1. Belonging to us.
    • 2008, Mike Knudson & Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School
      Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
    • 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
      As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
  2. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
      Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
    I'm going to see our Terry for tea.

Translations

See also
English personal pronouns
personal pronounpossessive
pronoun		possessive
determiner
subjectiveobjectivereflexive
first personsingular Imemyselfminemy
mine (before vowels, archaic)
plural weusourselves
ourself		oursour
second personsingularstandard youyouyourselfyours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		your
archaic, informal thoutheethyself
theeself		thinethy
thine (before vowels)
pluralstandard you
you all
ye (archaic)		you
you all		yourselvesyours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		your
informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third personsingularmasculine hehimhimself
hisself (archaic)		his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)		his
feminine sheherherselfhers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)		her
neuter itititselfits
his (archaic)		its
his (archaic)
genderless theythemthemself, themselvestheirstheir
genderless, nonspecific
(formal)		 oneoneoneself–one's
plural theythemthemselvestheirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		their

Verb

our

  1. Misspelling of are.

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ūre.

Pronoun

our

  1. Alternative form of oure

Etymology 2

Determiner

our

  1. Alternative form of youre

References

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman houre.

Noun

our

  1. Alternative form of houre

Romansch

Alternative forms
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ur

Etymology

From Latin ōra.

Noun

our m (plural ours)

  1. (Surmiran) edge, margins
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