Us

Word US
Character 2
Hyphenation us
Pronunciations /əs/

Definitions and meanings of "Us"

What do we mean by us?

Used as the direct object of a verb. pronoun

Used as the indirect object of a verb. pronoun

Used as the object of a preposition. pronoun

Used as a predicate nominative. pronoun

Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb. pronoun

The objective case of we.

An old spelling of use. noun

The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of we. See we. pronoun

Alternative spelling of µs. noun

Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we. pronoun

Me pronoun

The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. determiner

North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 noun

(personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.

(chiefly with give) Me.

Our.

Me (in all contexts).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Us

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The word "us" in example sentences

Think something along the lines of ¨you don't love us anymore¨ or ¨you´ve forgotten about us¨ or any other number of guilt-inducing jabs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Diary Entry by Alan MacDonald (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama \'teaching moment\' --- not him \'teaching us\ 'but us \'teaching him\'! ' ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let us not allow depression to govern * us* as it does the rest of the masses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What the vanishing bees are telling us is the same thing the vanishing field birds are telling us~ we are at a critical ecologicalthresholdin our evolution and unless we take dramatic steps to change our life threatening habits&excesses and, instead, embrace ourinterconnection with nature~ theecosystem will collapse and the human being as a species willeventuallygo the way of the vanishing bees. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The ones that you want to use to describe me, or bean; use to create a new identity for *us* because your politics insist that refering to us as women, as female, is somehow disenfranchising to someone else? ❋ Unknown (2007)

They will trade with us, they will teach us— and you all know they have much to teach—and they will come to our aid in times of trouble. ❋ Canavan, Trudi (2006)

Rather than learn from us or work with us, they seek to destroy us… ❋ Unknown (2006)

When asked in an interview in 2002 what a ‘proper response’ for the US to 9-11 would be, the renowned political philosopher and activist, Noam Chomsky, answered that “whatever answer one gives, it should at least satisfy the most elementary moral truism that I can think of, namely that if some act is right for us, it is right for others; if it's wrong for others, it's wrong for us”. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He is “for us,” with all the infinity of his being; with all the omnipotence of his love; with all the infallibility of his wisdom; arrayed in all his divine attributes, he is “for us,”eternally and immutably “for us”; “for us” when yon blue skies shall be rolled up like a worn out vesture; “for us” throughout eternity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In Jewish practice, when you first taste a new kind of fruit or vegetable, or taste it again for the first time in a new season, the blessing “Shehekheyonu ve kiyemonu” “who has kept us alive and sustained us” expresses thanksgiving for having remained alive to experience this time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We tend to think of that grey matter as transcendently complex, and we think of it as being the bit that makes us _us. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Conclusion: sometimes the state is *us*, to attempt to quote Pogo, "We have seen the enemy and he is us." ❋ Unknown (2004)

Unlike those of us who still have the courage to dream, even if such dreams are unhealthy and involuntary because they drive us, com­pel us, force us ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)

The three of us [the girl, her mother, a young sister] lived in a state of perpetual enthusiasm for everything that seemed beautiful to us…. ' ❋ Bedford, Sybille (1976)

I spose as the Guvner was rayther libberal to TIM, when we left, as all reel gennelmen allus is, for the tears acshally came into the pore feller's eyes, and he blessed us both, and wished as a few more genelman like _us_ woud sumtimes wisit poor old Ireland! ❋ Various (N/A)

It is such insolence to talk to us -- good heavens, to _us! ❋ Mona Caird (N/A)

God himself, God in Christ reconciling us unto himself: by his mighty power subduing the enmity that is in us; melting our flinty hearts; drawing us with the cords of love; creating us anew after his own image, which we had totally lost; uniting us to himself, even _us_, who were enmity itself, but now are become one with God, who is love. ❋ Isabella Graham (N/A)

_I fear their natural strength was our bane by lulling us into a state of security_ and enabling the enemy to steal _a march upon us_. ❋ Henry P. Johnston (N/A)

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