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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • pronoun Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to us.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See our.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See Note under our.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • pronoun That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English oures, from oure, our, from Old English ūre; see nes- in Indo-European roots.]

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our +‎ -'s

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