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Ourselves

//aʊəˈsɛlvz// pron, slang

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Pronoun
  1. 1
    Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. reflexive

    "We should keep this for ourselves."

  2. 2
    Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included. emphatic

    "We did it ourselves."

  3. 3
    Referring to everyone being addressed. colloquial

    "Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please."

  4. 4
    Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself. colloquial

    "Coordinate term: nurse's we"

Etymology

Morphologically our + -selves.

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