a pronoun such as ‘mine’, ‘theirs’ or ‘yours’ that shows who something relates to or belongs to. In the sentence ‘He has his problems and I have mine’, ‘mine’ refers to ‘my problems’, and in the sentence ‘They want to buy the house next door to ours’, ‘ours’ refers to ‘our house’.
Synonyms and related words
Types and forms of pronouns
ablative
demonstrative pronoun
direct object
possessive pronoun
noun countable linguistics
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Word Forms
singular
possessive pronoun
plural
possessive pronouns
DEFINITIONS1
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a pronoun such as ‘mine’, ‘theirs’ or ‘yours’ that shows who something relates to or belongs to. In the sentence ‘He has his problems and I have mine’, ‘mine’ refers to ‘my problems’, and in the sentence ‘They want to buy the house next door to ours’, ‘ours’ refers to ‘our house’.