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us

pron
/əs//juː.ɛs/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé Proto-Germanic *uns Old English ūs Middle English us English us From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

  1. inherited from *uns✻
  2. inherited from *uns✻
  3. inherited from ūs
  4. inherited from us

Definitions

  1. Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)

    • Don't treat us like idiots.

  2. Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)

    • Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
    • Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

  3. We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the…

    We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula

    • Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
    • Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.
  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment…

      Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.

      • It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
      • I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.

    2. People in general.

      • Grief ages us.

    3. The person(s) being addressed.

      • Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.

    4. Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of…

      Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.

      • Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's get us a few ingredients that we'll need ...

    5. Me.

      • Give us a look at your paper.
      • Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
      • She's turned the weans against us!

    6. Me (in all contexts).

      • Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.
      • Could ye dee that for us?

    7. Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category…

      Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).

      • It's not good enough for us teachers.

    8. Our.

      • We'll have to throw us food out.

    9. The relationship (usually romantic) between the speaker and listener or some other…

      The relationship (usually romantic) between the speaker and listener or some other unspecified person.

      • There is no us.
      • Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

    10. Alternative form of u's.

    11. Initialism of the United States

      Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.

      • ICANN is based in the US.
      • legal residents of the contiguous US
      • Some 35 states, all five US territories and four tribes have told the US Department of Agriculture that they will participate in Summer EBT this year, covering about 70% of the children eligible for the program.

    12. Initialism of unconditioned stimulus.

    13. Initialism of ultrasonography or ultrasound.

    14. Abbreviation of undersize.

    15. Abbreviation of unserviceable.

      • The radio is US.

    16. Initialism of Upper Sorbian.

    17. plural of U

The neighborhood

Derived

after us the deluge, all your base are belong to us, and so say all of us, bless us, can you tell us, come down to us, God preserve us, it happens to the best of us, let us, let us count the ways, let us go, my very educated mother just served us nachos, my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas, my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins, my very educated mother just served us noodles, my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas, no longer with us, nothing about us without us, one of us, still with us, tell us another, tell us another one, them-and-us, the poor we will always have with us, they hate us 'cause they ain't us, till death do us part, till death us do part, us-and-them, us-and-them-ism, us selves, usses, us versus them, with us

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for us. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA