"both of ours" meaning in English

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Pronoun

Etymology: from both of us and ours. Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|cat2=possessive pronouns|cat3=first person pronouns}} both of ours
  1. (colloquial) That which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun. Tags: colloquial Translations (that which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun): mindkettőnké (Hungarian), kettőnké (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-both_of_ours-en-pron-allA2sC0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English first person pronouns, English grammar appendices, English possessive pronouns, English pronouns Related terms: Ime [colloquial], me, myselfmemysen, mine, mymineme [archaic, before-vowel], we, us, ourselvesourselfoursen, ours, our, you, yourselfyoursen, yoursyourn [dialectal, obsolete], your, thou, thee, thyselftheeselfthysen, thine, thythine [before-vowel], youye [archaic], yourselves, you ally'all you guys, y'allselves, y'all's you guys' your guys' [proscribed], y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' [nonstandard, proscribed], he, him, himselfhisselfhissen [archaic], hishisn [dialectal, obsolete], his, she, her, herselfhersen, hershern [dialectal, obsolete], ithit, itselfhitself, itshis [archaic], itshishits [archaic], they, them, themself, themselves, theirs, their, one, oneself, , one's, themhem, 'em, themselvestheirsen, theirstheirn [dialectal, obsolete]

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  "etymology_text": "from both of us and ours.",
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          "text": "[…] Everything we have is both of ours.",
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          "ref": "2011, Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy",
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        "(colloquial) That which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun."
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          "ref": "2011, Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy",
          "text": "The I in this book is me, Dean. But the writing is both of ours.",
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      "sense": "that which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun",
      "word": "mindkettőnké"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "that which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun",
      "word": "kettőnké"
    }
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}

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