ourselves

Meaning

1. (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
2. (emphatic) Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
3. (colloquial) Referring to everyone being addressed.
4. (colloquial) Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.

Synonyms

us

🇺🇸

we

themselves

yourselves

herself

yourself

itself

himself

oneself

myself

each other

self

body

ours

we ourselves

thyself

to us

you and I

Translations

uns

nos

nous-mêmes

zelf

selbst

même

nous

ons

🇺🇸

wij

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aʊəˈsɛlvz/

Etymology

Morphologically our + -selves.