Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.
- pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb.
- pronoun Used as the object of a preposition.
- pronoun Informal Used as a predicate nominative.
- pronoun Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The objective case of we.
- noun An old spelling of
use .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of
we . Seewe .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
µs . - pronoun personal
me and at least one other person; the objective case ofwe . - pronoun colloquial
me - determiner The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Diary Entry by Alan MacDonald (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama \'teaching moment\' --- not him \'teaching us\ 'but us \'teaching him\'! '
OpEdNews - Diary: Let's use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment" 2009
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Think something along the lines of ¨you don't love us anymore¨ or ¨you´ve forgotten about us¨ or any other number of guilt-inducing jabs.
What a month… 2009
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Let us not allow depression to govern * us* as it does the rest of the masses.
Time To Call Your Congressional Reps to Demand Hearings on Police Abuse of Journalists 2008
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What the vanishing bees are telling us is the same thing the vanishing field birds are telling us~ we are at a critical ecologicalthresholdin our evolution and unless we take dramatic steps to change our life threatening habits&excesses and, instead, embrace ourinterconnection with nature~ theecosystem will collapse and the human being as a species willeventuallygo the way of the vanishing bees.
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The ones that you want to use to describe me, or bean; use to create a new identity for *us* because your politics insist that refering to us as women, as female, is somehow disenfranchising to someone else?
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The ones that you want to use to describe me, or bean; use to create a new identity for *us* because your politics insist that refering to us as women, as female, is somehow disenfranchising to someone else?
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They will trade with us, they will teach us and you all know they have much to teachand they will come to our aid in times of trouble.
The Last of the Wilds Canavan, Trudi 2006
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Rather than learn from us or work with us, they seek to destroy us
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When asked in an interview in 2002 what a proper response for the US to 9-11 would be, the renowned political philosopher and activist, Noam Chomsky, answered that whatever answer one gives, it should at least satisfy the most elementary moral truism that I can think of, namely that if some act is right for us, it is right for others; if it's wrong for others, it's wrong for us.
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He is for us, with all the infinity of his being; with all the omnipotence of his love; with all the infallibility of his wisdom; arrayed in all his divine attributes, he is for us,eternally and immutably for us; for us when yon blue skies shall be rolled up like a worn out vesture; for us throughout eternity.
gangerh commented on the word us
A synonym for our in Yorkshire.
August 24, 2009