our

English Online Dictionary. What means our‎? What does our mean?

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, unsere (“our”) Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.

Pronunciation

(UK)

• enPR: ouə, ä(r), IPA^(key): /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/, /ɑː(ɹ)/, /aː(ɹ)/
• Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

(US)

• (stressed form)
  • enPR: our, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɚ/
    • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
• (unstressed form)
  • enPR: ar, IPA^(key): /ɑɹ/, [ɑɹ], [ɑ˞]
    • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
  • Homophone: are

(General Australian, New Zealand)

• enPR: ou(ə), IPA^(key): /æʊ(ə)/ or IPA^(key): /ɐː/

(India)

• IPA^(key): /aː(r)/, /ɐʋə(r)/, /ɐwə(r)/

(Canada)

• IPA^(key): /aʊ(ə)ɹ/, /aːɹ/, /ɑːɹ/
  • (Dialectal) IPA^(key): /ʌʊɹ/, /ɔːɹ/
• Homophone: ow (some dialects) or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -aʊ or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Determiner

our (first-person plural possessive determiner)

1. Belonging to us, excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive our).
2. Belonging to us, including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive our).

3. Of, from, or belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
4. Belonging to people in general.
5. (colloquial) Belonging to everyone being addressed.

6. (colloquial, may seem patronising) Belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially of a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.

7. (colloquial, uncommon) Belonging to a third person, especially someone in the speaker's care.

8. (colloquial) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.

9. (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.

Derived terms

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See also

Verb

our

1. Misspelling of are.
   • You our the lifeblood of the game and we thank you for everything you do. [1]

Anagrams

• ROU, UoR, uro-

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ūre.

Pronoun

our

1. Alternative form of oure

Etymology 2

Determiner

our

1. Alternative form of your

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman houre.

Noun

our

1. Alternative form of houre

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin ōra.

Noun

our m (plural ours)

1. (Surmiran) edge, margins

Scots

Alternative forms

• oor, wir, wur

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, from Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

Determiner

our

1. our

See also

References

• “our, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “our, pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Yola

Determiner

our

1. Alternative form of oor

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86