Us

Quick meaning: Us is a pronoun meaning Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
2. Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
3. People in general.
4. (colloquial) The person(s) being addressed.
5. (colloquial) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
6. (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with certain verbs such as give, get, fetch, etc.) Me.
7. 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:

Example Sentences

Grief ages us.

Don't treat us like idiots.

Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.

Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rok, asc, we, ourselves.

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