Our, possessive pron.

possessive pron. [A-S. ōre, contracted from user, usser, from us, us, to us; Goth. unsara, N. H. Ger. unser; Dan. vor, Sw. vår; in the A-S. oblique cases, ōrum, ōrne, whence our vulgar ourn.] Pertaining, or belonging, to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops. See I.

☞ When the noun is not expressed, ours (not our) is used; as, whose house is that? It is ours.

Their organs are better disposed than ours for receiving grateful impressions from sensible objects. Altenbury.