Two or more people including or consisting of the speaker(s)/writer(s).
We are here to arrest you.
The institution which the speaker/writer is acting for. (This is the editorial we, used by writers and others when speaking with the authority of their publication or organisation.
We will in due course state our reasons for publishing the name of the accused.
Us.
He was a propa gadgie, and always bought we drinks after a long shift.
Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as belonging to or constituting the stated category of people.
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.
Initialism of Western Europe.
Initialism of war establishment.
From Middle English we, from Old English wē (“we”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz (“we”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we (plural)”). Cognate with Scots wee, we (“we...
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