English Explanatory Dictionary

us

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
  2. Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
  3. 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
  4. Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
  5. People in general.
  6. The person(s) being addressed.
  7. Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
  8. Me.
  9. Me (in all contexts).
det
  1. Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).
  2. Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
  3. Our.
noun
  1. The relationship (usually romantic) between the speaker and listener or some other unspecified person.
noun
  1. Alternative form of u's.
name
  1. Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.
noun
  1. Initialism of unconditioned stimulus.
  2. Initialism of ultrasonography or ultrasound.
adj
  1. Abbreviation of undersize.
  2. Abbreviation of unserviceable.
name
  1. Initialism of Upper Sorbian.
noun
  1. plural of U

Pronunciation

/əs/ /ʌs/ ŭs /əz/ /ʊz/ /ɪz/ en-us-us.ogg /juː.ɛs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-US.wav

Word forms

us -'s uz is iz U.S. U. S. USs

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”).

Related words

we our ours Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme ourselvesourselfoursen oursourn you yourselfyoursen yoursyourn your thou thee thyselftheeselfthysen thine thythine youye yourselves you ally'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' he him himselfhisselfhissen hishisn his she her herselfhersen hershern ithit itselfhitself itshis itshishits they them themself themselves theirs their one oneself – one's themhem 'em themselvestheirsen theirstheirn The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun. U/S

Derived words

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 US-ian US American USrael US-wide ANZUS AUKUS
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