Meaning & use
we
Used by a speaker to refer to themselves together with one or more other people.
See it in a sentence
We decided to leave early that morning to beat the traffic.
As a team, we finished the project ahead of schedule.
A note on using this word
We has no true synonyms since it is a grammatical pronoun; in formal writing, phrases like 'the authors' sometimes replace it to avoid a first-person voice.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
i
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