both of ours
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]- (colloquial) That which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun.
- 1981, Meredith Sue Willis, Higher Ground:
- “[…] Everything we have is both of ours.”
- 2011, Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy:
- The I in this book is me, Dean. But the writing is both of ours.
Translations
[edit]that which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun
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See also
[edit]English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.