language note: Ours is the first person plural possessive pronoun.
pronoun
You use ours to refer to something that belongs or relates both to yourself and to one or more other people.
There are few strangers in a town like ours.
Half the houses had been fitted with alarms and ours hadn't.
English Easy Learning GrammarPossessive pronounsPossessive pronouns are used when you want to indicate who owns or is associated withan item. All those books are hers. Those suitcases are ours. Are ... Read more
ours in British English
(aʊəz)
pronoun
1.
something or someone belonging to or associated with us
ours have blue tags
2. of ours
ours in American English
(aʊrz)
pronoun
that or those belonging to us: the possessive form of we, used without a following noun, often after of
this house is ours; ours are better; she is a friend of ours
Word origin
ME ures < ure, our + gen. -s, hence, in form, a double poss.
Examples of 'ours' in a sentence
ours
The range that cats can hear is much broader than ours.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
We needed not to lose any of ours.
The Sun (2013)
This is very important in this one world of ours.
Aganbegyan, Abel Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy (1990)
Ours was one of nine in a converted stable block and around their own courtyard.
The Sun (2016)
Ours is one very down dressing room.
The Sun (2008)
Ours is not one of those homes where the youngsters are in charge.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We know the next election is ours to lose and feel powerless as we watch it seep away.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
What is equally likely is that she resented the fact that her successes had become as much ours as hers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Their mortgage banks have suffered much less than ours and their taxpayers are facing much lower bills for bailing them out.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The choice is ours at last.
The Sun (2015)
Ours is very much a comedy.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Wish he was one of ours.
The Sun (2008)
Dear friend, the choice is ours.
Christianity Today (2000)
Why should we think it's ours to lose?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is the bowling that worries me most, not so much theirs as ours.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We see each game as ours to lose rather than other teams' to win.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In many cases, the ideas that appear in this book are as much theirs as ours.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
At home, we felt it was ours to lose and we did do that.
The Sun (2011)
At this point all had been involved in a number of contacts and were loath to do so again but the choice was not ours to make.
Richard Holmes Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War (2006)
For me it was and will remain, simply about choice, ours and theirs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
ours
British English: ours /aʊəz/ PRONOUN
You use ours when you are talking about something that belongs to you and one or more other people.
That car is ours.
American English: ours
Arabic: مُلكَنَا
Brazilian Portuguese: nosso
Chinese: 我们的
Croatian: naš
Czech: náš
Danish: vores
Dutch: ons
European Spanish: nuestro
Finnish: meidän
French: le nôtre
German: unserer
Greek: δικός μας
Italian: il nostro
Japanese: 私たちのもの
Korean: 우리 것
Norwegian: vår
Polish: nasz
European Portuguese: nosso
Romanian: al nostru
Russian: принадлежащий нам
Latin American Spanish: nuestro
Swedish: vår
Thai: ของเราเอง
Turkish: bizimki
Ukrainian: наш
Vietnamese: của chúng tôi
Chinese translation of 'ours'
ours
(auəz)
pron
我们(們)的 (wǒmen de)
this is ours这(這)是我们(們)的 (zhè shì wǒmen de)
a friend of ours我们(們)的一个(個)朋友 (wǒmen de yī gè péngyou)
All related terms of 'ours'
this is ours
这(這)是我们(們)的 zhè shì wǒmen de
a friend of ours
我们(們)的一个(個)朋友 wǒmen de yī gè péngyou
a house like ours
像我们(們)这(這)样(樣)的房子 xiàng wǒmen zhèyàng de fángzi
a friend of ours/mine
我们(們)/我的一个(個)朋友 wǒmen/wǒ de yī gè péngyou
her garden can't compare with ours
她的花园(園)没(沒)法和我们(們)的相比 tā de huāyuán méifǎ hé wǒmen de xiāngbǐ