ourselves

Pron

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

Examples

• Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.
• Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?
• Let's not beat ourselves up over this.
• Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves.
• We did it ourselves.
• We should keep this for ourselves.
• Well done Timmy! Did we make that model ourselves?

Synonyms

usself, weself

Related Words

'em, Ime, The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun, all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys', all yours y'all's you guys' your guys', archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun., he, her, herselfhersen, hershern, him, himselfhisselfhissen, his, hishisn, including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete, ithit, itselfhitself, itshis, itshishits, me, mine, mymineme, myselfmemysen, one, one's, oneself, our, ourselvesourselfoursen, oursourn, she, thee, their, theirs, theirstheirn, them, themhem, themself, themselves, themselvestheirsen, they, thine, thou, thyselftheeselfthysen, thythine, us, we, y'allselves, you, you ally'all you guys, your, yourselfyoursen, yourselves, yoursyourn, youye, –