our
/æwɝ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.14 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
Of, from, or belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
det
det
Belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially of a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.
Colloquial
det
Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "Sorry, you're not invited to our party."
- "Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order."
- "We must try to save our marriage for the sake of our children."
- "Our safety record at ABC Widgets is very good."
- "In English, our nouns do not generally have gender."
- "Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world."
Etymology
From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser, unsere (“our”) Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: oure, ūre, *unseraz, *wéy
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /æwɝ/