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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).
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