our

Examples

• All

• During our vacation, we visited several museums.

• Evening, ladies and gentlemen... and welcome to our annual social gathering.

  Straw Dogs (1971)

• OK, so that is our plan for the day.

• The key to all of our issues is love.

• And a lot of our work is fun.

• In that space is our power to choose.

• The colors are bright, and our dreams are too.

• Let's move on then, to our top story.

• You are leaving a hole in our lives that can never be filled.

  Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D (2014)

• We are the change agents that will allow our libraries to be reinvented and transformed.

  Academic text (2011)

Idioms

T

to try our best

14 2.1

To make as much effort as you can to reach a goal

U

under our noses

12 4.9

Very close and easy to see but not noticed

P

to put our differences behind us

• Informal

1 5.1

Stop arguing and agree to work together

P

to put our pants on one leg at a time

• Informal

1 9.3

To be ordinary like other people

Compounds

Y

year of our Lord

• Formal

6 8.2

The year in the Christian calendar used when writing dates like AD 1865

E

Epiphany of Our Lord

8.4

A Christian festival twelve days after Christmas to remember the visit of the wise men to the baby Jesus

O

Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

9.9

A Roman Catholic religious group that dates from the 1100s and is devoted to the Virgin Mary and prayer

O

Our Lady's bedstraw

9.9

A wild meadow plant with many small yellow flowers and a sweet smell

O

Our Lady's mild thistle

9.9

A tall plant with large green leaves with white patches and purple flowers

O

Our Lord's candle

• US

9.9

A tall desert plant with a long stem of creamy white flowers

Surface Forms

Etymology