Meaning & use

we

pronoun·Everyday

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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