our
Multiple Entries:
our -our
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
our/ɑː(r)/
▶possessive determiner
- 1 belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more others previously mentioned or easily identified.
■ belonging to or associated with people in general.
- 2 used in formal contexts by a royal person or a writer to refer to something belonging to himself or herself.
- 3 informal, chiefly N. English used with a name to refer to a relative or friend of the speaker.
– origin OE ūre, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-our1
▶suffix variant spelling of -or2 surviving in some nouns such as ardour, colour.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-our2
▶suffix variant spelling of -or1 (as in saviour).
'our' also found in these Oxford entries:
AD
- all
- aspersion
- Cosa Nostra
- culprit
- de nos jours
- entrench
- head
- intrepid
- last
- lord
- maker
- maulana
- midst
- Milky Way
- multiverse
- Nostratic
- nostrum
- -or
- orbit
- -our
- -our
- Our Father
- Our Lady
- Our Lord
- ours
- paternoster
- reference
- rosary
- saviour
- SOS
- vavasour
- year

