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From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *no-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”).

(UK)
- enPR: ouər, IPA: /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"aU@r/
- Homophone: hour
- Rhymes: -aʊər
(UK)
- IPA: /ɑː(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /A:(\r)/
- Homophone: are
- Rhymes: --ɑː(r)
(US)
- enPR: our, IPA: /ˈaʊɚ/, SAMPA: /"aU@`/
- Audio (US)
  
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- Rhymes: -aʊər
- enPR: ar, IPA: /ɑɹ/, SAMPA: /Ar/
- Audio (US)
  
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)
(Australia)
- enPR: ou(ə), IPA: /æɔ(ə)/, SAMPA: /{O(@)/
- Rhymes: -aʊ

our possessive pronoun

(attributive) Belonging to us.
- 2008, Mike Knudson & Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School
  
  Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
  
  Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
(Northern England, Scotland) used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.

I'm going to see our Terry for tea.

belonging to us

Italian: il nostro (it) m. sg.
Japanese: 私たちの (ja) (わたしたちの, watashitachi-no) (also: 我等の), 我らの (ja) (われらの, warera-no), 我々の (ja) (われわれの, wareware-no)
Kazakh: біздің (kk) (bizdiñ)
Korean: 우리의 (ko) (uri-ui)
Lao: ຂອງພວກເຮົາ (lo) (khööng phöök-hao)
Latgalian: myusu
Latin: noster (la) m.
Latvian: mūsu (lv)
Macedonian: наш (mk) (naš)
Manchu: (musei inclusive), (meni exclusive)
Norwegian: vår (no)
Persian: ما (fa) (mâ)
Polish: nasz (pl) m. sg.
Portuguese: nosso (pt) m. sg.
Romanian: nostru (ro) m. sg.
Russian: наш (ru) (naš)
Scots: oor (sco), wir (sco)
Scottish Gaelic: ar
Serbo-Croatian: наш (sh), naš (sh)
Slovak: náš (sk)
Slovene: naš (sl) m. sg.
Spanish: nuestro (es) m. sg.
Swedish: vår (sv) c. sg.
Telugu: మా (maa), మన (mana)
Thai: ของเรา (th) (kŏng rao)
Turkish: bizim (tr)
Ukrainian: наш (uk) (naš)
Urdu: ہمارا (ur) (hamārā)
Vietnamese: của chúng tôi (vi)
Volapük: obsik (vo), obas (vo)
Welsh: ein (cy)
West Frisian: ús (fy)
Zulu: -thu (zu)

Most common English words before 1923: do · has · could · #63: our · than · some · other

From Latin ōra.

our m. (plural ours)