our
/aʊə
/possessive determiner
1Belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned or easily identified: Jo and I had our hair cut...
- We accept that we should have noted these references in our list of words mentioned.
- It puts him up much higher than he is accustomed to being, and as a bonus it allows him to play with our hair.
- The only thing that moved was our hair and clothes in the wind, and my falling tears.
1.1Belonging to or associated with people in general: when we hear a sound, our brains identify the source quickly...
- Anyone who votes for this act should not deserve our votes in the general election.
- Presumably all the nonsense must be produced by some part of our brain, so which part?
- This is possible because our brains adapt to create neural maps for new body parts.
2Used in formal contexts by a royal person or a writer or editor to refer to something belonging to or associated with himself or herself: we want to know what you, our readers, think...
- We are now asking our readers to fill in a letter and send it to the Prime Minister.
- To find out how our readers fared, we have followed four of them over the past six months.
- As a thank you to our readers we have some great competitions and giveaways lined up.
3 informal, chiefly Northern English Used with a name to refer to a relative, friend, or colleague of the speaker: really, she is a one, our Gillian...
- My cross belongs to our Tony.
Origin
Old English ūre, of Germanic origin; related to us and German unser.
Rhymes
- Steffens, Lincoln
- steganography
- Stegner, Wallace
- stegosaur
- stegosaurus
- Steichen, Edward
- Steiermark
- Steiger, Rod
- stein
- Steinbeck, John
- steinbock
- steinbok
- Steinbrenner, George
- Steinem, Gloria
- Steiner, Rudolf
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinheim
- Steinie
- Steinway
- stela
- stelar
- Stelazine
- stele
- Stella, Frank
- Stella Maris