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  1. adjective Used as a modifier before a noun: our accomplishments; our hometown.

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  • He had it, however, so strongly impressed upon him by his advisers that if we were to go to Oxford we must above all things get a sufficient knowledge of Latin and Greek to pass Responsions that, though we had an occasional lesson in French, our sojourn on the Riviera, as far as learning French was concerned, was thrown away. —  The Adventure of Living
  • And he also has a wonderful family, as I do, so we can always talk about our -- our spectacular wives and our wonderful children. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • "It is our position that we have done everything that's required and that, yes, I should be seated and I should be seated forthwith and I should be seated prior to the inauguration of our -- our 44th president," Burris said. —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • And you build up infrastructure, and you rein in government spending, and you make our -- our nation energy independent. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Had the government spent those precious funds to hire new teachers fluent in English, our students would have been better served, and the policy more effectively implemented. —  EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ūre; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also oure, ower, owre; from Middle English oure, ure, from Anglo-Saxon ūre (= Old Saxon ūsa = OFries. ūse, unse, onse = Dutch ons, onze = Middle Low German unse = Old High German unsar, unser, Middle High German G. unser = Icelandic vārr; vār, modern vor = Swedish vår = Danish vor = Goth, unsar), possessive, our, from ūre, genitive plural, of us: see us.
 

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