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our

our

1 1.0
Used before a noun to show it belongs to the speaker and at least one other person
  • determiner
  • /aʊər/
translation icon : nuestro
  • We can breed our own tritium, our own fuel.

So we will put that in our output, right?

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Examples

  • Is our vacancy rate at all our projects the right number?

  • Which one of us does our corgi Omar like better?

    GQ
  • I mean what, why is our country in this place?

  • The Goals of Our Research

    Blog text (10)
  • So we will put that in our output, right?

  • And so we had our first child in Trenton.

  • Think about footwear and what people in our own time put into it.

  • So we'll see you in our next excursion.

  • Gowanus Flood Reaches the Bottom of Our Block

    Blog text (14)
  • We will present our findings at the conference next week.

Idioms

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

Very close and easy to see but not noticed

Stop arguing and agree to work together

To be ordinary like other people

Compounds

6 8.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surface Forms

our singular

Etymology

Our comes from the Old English word ūre, which meant 'of us', and it is the same root as we and us, so our shows that something belongs to or is shared by the speaker and others.