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ours

(ourz)

pron. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to us: The original of the painting is ours. Their children are grown, but ours are still young.

[Middle English oures, from oure, our, from Old English ūre; see nes- in Indo-European roots.]

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ours

(aʊəz)

pron

1. something or someone belonging to or associated with us: ours have blue tags.

2. of ours belonging to or associated with us

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ours

(aʊ^ərz, ˈaʊ ərz or, often, ɑrz)

pron.

1. a form of the possessive case of we used as a predicate adjective: Which house is ours?

2. that or those belonging to us: Ours are the pink ones.

[1250–1300; Middle English (orig. north) ures, oures. See our, 's¹]

Translations

لنا، خاصَّتُنامُلكَنَا

náš

vores

unsererunseresunsere

δικός μας

nuestro(las) nuestras(los) nuestrosel (nuestro)la (nuestra)

meidän

le nôtre

naš

mienk

okkar

il nostro la nostra nostra nostre nostri

私たちのもの

우리 것

vårvåravårt

ของเราเอง

bizim bizimki

của chúng tôi

我们的

ours

[aʊəz] POSS PRON (referring to singular posession) → (el/la) nuestro/a; (referring to plural posession) → (los/las) nuestros/as
this house is ours → esta casa es nuestra
a friend of ours → un amigo nuestro
your car is much bigger than ours → vuestro coche es mucho más grande que el nuestro
"our teachers are strict" - "ours are too" → -nuestros profesores son estrictos -los nuestros también

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ours

[ˈaʊə^rz] pron

(gen, referring to singular noun) → le nôtre(la); (referring to plural noun) → les nôtres
Your garden is very big, ours is much smaller → Votre jardin est très grand, le nôtre est beaucoup plus petit.
Your school is very different from ours → Votre école est très différente de la nôtre.
Our teachers are strict. - Ours are too → Nos professeurs sont sévères. - Les nôtres aussi.

(= our property) is this ours? → c'est à nous?
This car is ours → Cette voiture est à nous.
Whose is this? - It's ours → C'est à qui? - À nous.
Is this one ours?
BUT C'est le or la nôtre?.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ours

poss pron → unsere(r, s); ours not to reason why(, ours but to do or die) (prov) → das wissen die Götter (inf), → es ist nicht an uns, nach dem Warum zu fragen ? also mine¹

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ours

[ˈaʊəz] poss pron → il/la nostro/a, i/le nostri/e pl
a friend of ours → un nostro amico
theirs is red, ours is green → il loro è rosso, il nostro è verde
this is ours → questo è (il) nostro

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

our

(auə) adjective

belonging to us. This is our house.

ours (auəz) pronoun

the one(s) belonging to us. The house is ours.

ourˈselves pronoun

1. used as the object of a verb when the person speaking and other people are the object of an action etc they perform. We saw ourselves in the mirror.

2. used to emphasize we, ~us or the names of the speaker and other people performing an action etc. We ourselves played no part in this.

3. without help etc. We'll just have to finish the job ourselves.

ours

→ مُلكَنَا náš vores unserer δικός μας nuestro meidän le nôtre naš il nostro 私たちのもの 우리 것 ons vår nasz nosso принадлежащий нам vår ของเราเอง bizimki của chúng tôi 我们的

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Bilibin and the rest of "ours" burst out laughing in Hippolyte's face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom- he had to admit- he had almost been jealous on his wife's account, was the butt of this set.

"We must let him see Amelie, she's exquisite!" said one of "ours," kissing his finger tips.

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Oh, look, Gilbert; there is ours. I'm so glad we left it burning.

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Another twice as big as ours which they breed to kill, fattening them with the milk of three or four cows.

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"Doubtless," said the Philosopher to himself, as he walked away, "the wisdom of fools is no deeper nor truer than ours, but they really do seem to have a more impressive way of imparting it."

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"We did not think you would start to explore this island of ours without telling us," he said; and then, "I was afraid--But--what--Hullo!"

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Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of concupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bringing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.

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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

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Their arms were not so long as ours either, and I did not notice that they ever balanced themselves when they walked, by touching the ground on either side with their hands.

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Alec, for in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children.

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Vanstone's address after the removal of the 4th of September; and if you can do nothing on your side, it may be desirable to have the lawyer watched on ours. In any case, it is certainly ascertained that Mr.

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There shrines and palaces and towers(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.