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[ɑː], (Determiner)
Definitions:
- belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned or easily identified
(e.g: Jo and I had our hair cut)
- used in formal contexts by a royal person or a writer or editor to refer to something belonging to or associated with himself or herself
(e.g: we want to know what you, our readers, think)
- used with a name to refer to a relative, friend, or colleague of the speaker
(e.g: really, she is a one, our Gillian)
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Origin
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Old English ūre, of Germanic origin; related to us and German unser
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