American Dictionary
Definition possessive pronoun in American English
possessive pronoun noun
[countable] noun
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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'.
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