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

Pronunciation

(UK)

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

(US)

• (stressed)
  • enPR: our, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɚ/
    • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: hour
• (unstressed)
  • 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/
• (Indian) IPA^(key): /aː(r)/, /ɐʋə(r)/, /ɐwə(r)/
• Homophone: ow (some dialects) or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -aʊ or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Determiner

our

1. Belonging to us.
2. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
3. (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.

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See also

Verb

our

1. Misspelling of are. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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

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