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| us [ stressed uss, unstressed əss ] |
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1. self and other or others: a pronoun used to refer to both yourself and another person or other people
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used after a verb or preposition
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  He told us to go away.
This problem affects all of us.
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2. royal us: used by a king or queen, or the editor of a newspaper, to mean "me"
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formal
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It gives us great pleasure to declare this building open.
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3. U.K. me: used by a person to refer to himself or herself
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informal
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Give us a look, then!
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4. regional
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informal
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Same as ourselves (sense 1)
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used after a verb as the indirect object
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We'd better find us a place to sleep.
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| [ Old English ūs< Germanic] |
