Definition of "ours" []

• 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. (pronoun)

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• ""The Society of the Internationale honeycombs Europe -- your police archives show you that -- and I tell you that, of the two hundred thousand soldiers of the national guard in Paris to-day, ninety per cent. are ours -- _ours_, soul and body."
• "Perhaps the most profound difference between how E.B. White started his day and how we begin ours is that when we wake up, we hop on our mobile device or computer and we are instantly connected."
• ""There is no longer anything which is ours; what I call ours is conventional.""