Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to us.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
our .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See Note under
our .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun That which belongs to
us ; the possessive case ofwe , used without a following noun.
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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"The Society of the Internationale honeycombs Europe -- your police archives show you that -- and I tell you that, of the two hundred thousand soldiers of the national guard in Paris to-day, ninety per cent. are ours -- _ours_, soul and body.
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Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected.
Tammy Tibbetts: How Social Networking Is Helping Millennial Women Change the World Tammy Tibbetts 2010
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Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected.
Tammy Tibbetts: How Social Networking Is Helping Millennial Women Change the World Tammy Tibbetts 2010
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Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected.
Tammy Tibbetts: How Social Networking Is Helping Millennial Women Change the World Tammy Tibbetts 2010
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Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected.
Tammy Tibbetts: How Social Networking Is Helping Millennial Women Change the World Tammy Tibbetts 2010
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Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected.
Tammy Tibbetts: How Social Networking Is Helping Millennial Women Change the World Tammy Tibbetts 2010
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Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected.
Tammy Tibbetts: How Social Networking Is Helping Millennial Women Change the World Tammy Tibbetts 2010
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"There is no longer anything which is ours; what I call ours is conventional."
Pens��es 1623-1662 1944
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Our bed, she adds, that inner retreat in which Thou dwellest in me, and which I call ours, that Thou mayst thereby be induced to come and give me there the nuptial kiss which I first asked of Thee, and which is my final end — our bed is ready, and adorned with the flowers of a thousand virtues.
Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life 1879
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How many men have lived in the houses which we call ours, sat on our seats, walked over our lands, carried in their purses the money that is in ours!
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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