Meanings
pronoun
- alternativeAlternative form of ourn.
Lula stopped, but she said, “You ain’t got no business bringin‘ white chillun here —they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?”
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
Origin
Perhaps due to reanalysis of ourn as a shortening of our one or our own.
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APA
our'n. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/our'n
MLA
“our'n.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/our'n. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “our'n,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/our'n.
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