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our

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What does our mean?

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.
More meanings (7)

determiner

  1. Belonging to people in general.
  2. Belonging to everyone being addressed.
  3. 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.
  4. Belonging to a third person, especially someone in the speaker's care.
  5. Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
  6. Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.

verb

  1. Misspelling of are.

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IPA pronunciation

/æwɝ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ɑːɹ/
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See this word in context.

Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land.
Patrick HenryGive Me Liberty or Give Me DeathProject Gutenberg ebook #6
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
J. M. (James Matthew) BarriePeter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]Project Gutenberg ebook #16
More book examples (3)
And after they had done praying unto the Lord we did again travel on our journey towards the tent of our father.
Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiProject Gutenberg ebook #17
This is a circumstance calculated to have more influence upon the character of our governments, than but few may be aware of.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
We went, as usual, to our several fields of labor, but with bosoms highly agitated with thoughts of our truly hazardous undertaking.
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveProject Gutenberg ebook #23