us

From u- (“micro-”) +‎ s (“second”).

us

2. (metrology, informal, proscribed) Alternative form of μs.

From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

• (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA^(key): /ʌs/, /ʌz/, (Local Dublin) IPA^(key): /ʊs/
• (unstressed) (US) IPA^(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA^(key): /əs/, /əz/
• (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ɪz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

us (personal pronoun; the objective case of we)

1. Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)

   Don't treat us like idiots.

2. Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)

   Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:

     Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

3. We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:

   Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.

   Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.

4. Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.

   It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.

   I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.

5. People in general.

   Grief ages us.

6. (colloquial) The person(s) being addressed.

   Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.

7. (colloquial) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.

   Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's get us a few ingredients that we'll need ...

8. (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with certain verbs such as give, get, fetch, etc.) Me.

   Give us a look at your paper.

   Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.

   She's turned the weans against us!

   (talking to oneself) Now then ... let me see ... I hope I'm doing this right ... if we just connect these two wires together ... if it gives us a shock then ... Ow!

9. (Northumbria) Me (in all contexts).

   Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.

   Could ye dee that for us?

• -'s (contracted form, as in let's)
• uz, is, iz (Northumbria)

• we
• our
• ours

us

1. Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).

   It's not good enough for us teachers.

2. (proscribed) Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
   • 1988 February 7, Mike Riegle, quoting John Royal, “Why Does GCN Have A Prisoner Project?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 10:

     Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.

3. (Northern England, Nottinghamshire) Our.^[1]

   We'll have to throw us food out.

• we

From u- (“micro-, 10^-6”) +‎ s (“second”).

us

2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Alternative spelling of μs: microsecond.
   • 2002, Peter Spasov, Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11, page 489:

     ;wait 500 us

   • 2012, Peter Feiler, David Gluch, Model-Based Engineering with AADL:

     The standard units are ns (nanoseconds), us (microseconds), ms (milliseconds), sec (seconds), min (minutes), and hr (hours).

   • 2014, Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster, Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right, page 198:

     Because the flash devices are local to the server, the latencies can be microseconds (us) instead of milliseconds (ms) and eliminate some traffic that would normally have gone over the storage network.

• See at um.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

us

1. (rare) Alternative form of u's.

• SU, Su

us

1. he/she/it (third-person singular nominative pronoun)

• Curnow, T. J. (1997). A grammar of Awa Pit (Cuaiquer): An indigenous language of south-western Colombia. The Australian National University.

Inherited from Latin vōs.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [us]
• Homophone: ús

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

1. you (plural, direct or indirect object)
2. contraction of vos

• us is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

  Si us plau. ― Please.

  Si no us importa. ― If you don't mind.

• -us is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.

  Volia veure-us. ― I wanted to see you.

• “us” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “us”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “us”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /us/, (stressed optionally) /uːs/

From Middle High German ūz, from Proto-Germanic *ūt.

us (+ dative)

1. (Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian) out of, from
   • 1936, Inscription on the Schwarze Katz well in Zell:

     He steiht ferm wie en Zeller us dem Hamm.

     He stands firm as a Zell man from the Hamm [i.e. the Moselle bow around Zell with its steeply sloped vineyards].

• Where it occurs in Moselle Franconian, it generally does so only in unstressed position while the stressed form is aus, ous.

• uus, uss
• aus, ous (Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Loss of the nasal is due to a sporadic development (analogous to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant-law, but later and not systematic); compare Luxembourgish eis, Limburgish ós.

us

1. (most of Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian) Dative/accusative first-person plural personal pronoun: us

• uus, uss
• oos, os, oss (common variant)
• uns, ons (Kölsch, also younger byform in many other dialects)

From Old Galician-Portuguese os, from Latin illōs.

• os (Mañegu)

us m pl (singular u, feminine a, feminine plural as)

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Masculine plural definite article; the

us

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Third person plural masculine accusative pronoun; them

• unhos (Mañegu)
• unhus (Valverdeñu)

us m pl (singular un, feminine unha, feminine plural unhas)

1. (Lagarteiru) Masculine singular indefinite article; some

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old French us, from Latin ūsus.

• IPA^(key): /ys/, (less often) /y/

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• Rhymes: -ys, -y
• Homophones: eusse, eussent, eusses (with /s/), eu, eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, u (without /s/), hue, huent, hues (without /s/, aspirated)

us m pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) mores; traditional practices or manners

• Now almost exclusively used in us et coutumes (“mores and customs”).

• abus
• user, usage, usuel

• “us”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• su

us

1. romanization of 𐌿𐍃

• ous, os, hus, usse, hous

From Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”).

• IPA^(key): /uːs/, /us/ (originally unstressed, but adopted as the usual form by Modern English)

us (nominative we)

1. First-person plural accusative pronoun: us.
2. (reflexive) ourselves.
3. (reciprocal) each other.

• we

• English: us
• Scots: us, hus
• Yola: ouse, ouz, uz

• “ū̆s, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/, /uːs/

ûs or us

1. (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) alternative form of uns
2. (possessive) alternative form of uns

Possessive pronoun:

From Old French uis, from Latin ostium.

us m (plural us)

1. door

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). Cognates include Old Frisian ūs (West Frisian ús), Old Saxon ūs (Low German os, ons), Dutch ons, Old High German uns (German uns), Old Norse oss (Swedish oss), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin nos.

• IPA^(key): /uːs/

ūs

1. accusative/dative of wē: (to) us

• Middle English: us, ous, os, hus, usse, hous
  • English: us
  • Scots: us, hus
  • Yola: ouse, ouz, uz

From Latin ūsus.

us oblique singular, m (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)

1. tradition or custom

• French: us

From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Cognates include Old English ūs, Old Saxon ūs and Old Dutch uns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːs/

ūs

1. accusative/dative of wī

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: üs

  Sylt: üüs

• Saterland Frisian: uus
• West Frisian: ús

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

• Rhymes: -us

us

1. plural of u

Inherited from Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”).

us

1. us

• “us, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “us, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ.

ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с)

1. fishbone

• “us”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Ottoman Turkish اوص (us), from Proto-Turkic *us (“mind, reason”).^[1]

us (definite accusative usu, plural uslar)

1. mind
2. reason
3. intelligence

• akıl
• zihin

us

1. fly (insect)

us

1. there
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 19:

     Cils äbinons-li i pö zäl et? Si! elogob us tumis.

     Were there children at that party as well? Yes, I've seen hundreds of them there.

us

1. object of wy