ourselves
Pronunciation: /aʊəˈsɛlvz/
The English word “ourselves” has 4 meanings listed here.
pronoun
- 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.
Etymology
Morphologically our + -selves.
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