Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Used as a modifier before a noun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former spelling of
hour . - noun For words so beginning, see
uro- . - Pertaining or belonging to us: as, our country; our rights; our troops. Ours is a later possessive form from
our , and is used in place of our and a noun, thus standing to our in the same relation as hers to her, yours to your, mine to my: as, the land is ours; your land and ours.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun attributive Belonging to
us . - pronoun Of, from, or belonging to the
nation ,region , orlanguage of the speaker. - pronoun 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.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And that in choosin 'me to guard the great booby he was playin' into our hands, makin 'our task even easier by handin' me on a plate the golden opportunity that every Hungarian patriot has been prayin 'for this ten years past.
Watershed 2010
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Mach and I agreed to serve the Adverse Adepts and Contrary Citizens in return for their protection and sanction o 'our liaisons with our chosen fe - males.
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We had a good quarter, delivering income from operations higher than our outlook, said CEO Carol Bartz, our search share has stabilized.
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We had a good quarter, delivering income from operations higher than our outlook, said CEO Carol Bartz, our search share has stabilized.
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But we get most of our mail-order loose teas from Upton Tea Imports, and *our* turnaround on shipping is quick because we happen to be in the same state as they are Massachusetts
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The reality is that we cannot save ourselves by saving only our family or 'our kind. '
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One former Tamil sympathizer in London has written, 'our liberator became our Pol Pot. '
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He added that the Sharia was 'our dream come true 'and that it is our constitutional right.
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Poverty keeps growing in the U.S. but the press is almost blind to it'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'our political discourse tends to focus on the middle class and neglect the poor, while our actual tax and spending policies are often directed to the benefit of the wealthy.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Poverty keeps growing in the U.S. but the press is almost blind to it 2009
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Clause (1) should certainly state that the SUPPORT needed for our troops is a demand for an immediate removal of 'our troops 'from the chaos that is Iraq.
House Dems' Resolution: "Congress Disapproves" Of Escalation 2009
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