See We in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "We",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "We",
"name": "en-pron"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "of we"
},
{
"word": "sometimes used when speaking as an important figure or figures"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1883 May, Minimum [pseudonym], “A Flying Dutchman”, in The Wheelman: An Illustrated Magazine of Cycling Literature and News, volume II, number 2, Boston, Mass.: The Wheelman Company […], →OCLC, chapter XIX (Touring), page 133, columns 1–2:",
"text": "“It seems to me that we are losing sight of the fact that we are artists,” said Miss Madder to Mr. Ehrlebach one evening about a week later, during one of his calls. / “We, with a capital ‘W,’” laughed Miss Larkin, mimicking Rose’s conscious air. / “Well, Mr. Ehrlebach is, anyway, and he ought to be doing some grave artistic studying.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1906, Mrs. Alec Tweedie [i.e., Ethel Brilliana Tweedie], “The Legislature and a Vice-President”, in Porfirio Diaz, Seven Times President of Mexico, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 390:",
"text": "Yet when Diaz talks one would think he had never achieved anything. He never uses the first pronoun singular, always speaking as “we,” but not the “we” with a capital W habitual to Royalty; just simply we, meaning others in preference to himself. That is why it has been so difficult to draw his picture, to show the modesty lying behind his giant strength.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
15,
17
],
[
42,
44
]
],
"ref": "1964, Pope Paul VI, quotee, The Catholic Mind, New York, N.Y.: America Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:",
"text": "But meanwhile, We say frankly that so far We do not have sufficient reason to regard the norms given by Pope Pius XII in this matter as surpassed and therefore not binding; they must therefore be considered valid, at least until we feel in conscience bound to modify them.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
59,
61
],
[
118,
120
],
[
148,
150
],
[
257,
260
],
[
286,
288
],
[
324,
327
],
[
324,
331
],
[
375,
378
],
[
404,
406
],
[
510,
513
],
[
540,
542
],
[
557,
559
],
[
579,
581
],
[
665,
667
],
[
738,
740
]
],
"ref": "1969 August 1, “Ad honorabiles Viros e publico Legumlatorum Coetu Reipublicae Ugandensis”, in Acta Apostolicae Sedis, volume LXI (overall work in Latin), Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 580:",
"text": "It may be well to begin by introducing each other. Who are We? You are not, perhaps led astray by the opinion held of Us by certain contemporaries; We are a weak and little man like other men, perhaps more so than other men. Have under standing^([sic]) for Our personal littleness. But We make so bold as to présent^([sic]) Ourself to you under a twofold title: one title is Our own—it is the great love We have for Africa, for you, and for the Peoples you gövern^([sic]) and represent; the other title is not Our own—it was conferred upon Us, and it makes Us humble and bold as We come among you: you know it well, it is the title of Pope, which means Father; and We inherited it from Saint Peter, whose unworthy but authentic successor We are.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
44
],
[
119,
121
],
[
173,
175
],
[
213,
215
]
],
"ref": "2000, Ronald Turco, “Book”, in Walk East on Burnside, Portland, Ore.: Imago Books, →ISBN, page 135:",
"text": "“You mean it was luck?” replied Jason. / “Well…in a way,” replied Berger. “It really means more than that. In a sense, We with a capital “W” are favoring your undertakings. We are watching over all. God sees all. We see all.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
200,
202
]
],
"ref": "[2019 November, Samuel Shem [pseudonym; Stephen Joseph Bergman], “The Sick Empire”, in Man’s 4th Best Hospital, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 319:",
"text": "“I too love it,” said Eddie. “Y’gotta be very delicate with cancer patients, and the ‘we’ works like a charm.” He seemed sincere. Naidoo looked worried. “I see the ‘we’ with a capital ‘W,’ the royal ‘We.’ My cancer patients can’t argue with King Eddie—”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Honorific alternative letter-case form of of we, sometimes used when speaking as an important figure or figures."
],
"id": "en-We-en-pron-CD7KF2QU",
"links": [
[
"Honorific",
"honorific"
],
[
"letter-case",
"letter case"
],
[
"we",
"we#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "He"
},
{
"word": "She"
},
{
"word": "They"
},
{
"word": "Thou"
},
{
"word": "You"
}
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"honorific"
]
}
],
"word": "We"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "We",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "We",
"name": "en-pron"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"word": "He"
},
{
"word": "She"
},
{
"word": "They"
},
{
"word": "Thou"
},
{
"word": "You"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "of we"
},
{
"word": "sometimes used when speaking as an important figure or figures"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English honorific terms",
"English lemmas",
"English pronouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1883 May, Minimum [pseudonym], “A Flying Dutchman”, in The Wheelman: An Illustrated Magazine of Cycling Literature and News, volume II, number 2, Boston, Mass.: The Wheelman Company […], →OCLC, chapter XIX (Touring), page 133, columns 1–2:",
"text": "“It seems to me that we are losing sight of the fact that we are artists,” said Miss Madder to Mr. Ehrlebach one evening about a week later, during one of his calls. / “We, with a capital ‘W,’” laughed Miss Larkin, mimicking Rose’s conscious air. / “Well, Mr. Ehrlebach is, anyway, and he ought to be doing some grave artistic studying.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1906, Mrs. Alec Tweedie [i.e., Ethel Brilliana Tweedie], “The Legislature and a Vice-President”, in Porfirio Diaz, Seven Times President of Mexico, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 390:",
"text": "Yet when Diaz talks one would think he had never achieved anything. He never uses the first pronoun singular, always speaking as “we,” but not the “we” with a capital W habitual to Royalty; just simply we, meaning others in preference to himself. That is why it has been so difficult to draw his picture, to show the modesty lying behind his giant strength.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
15,
17
],
[
42,
44
]
],
"ref": "1964, Pope Paul VI, quotee, The Catholic Mind, New York, N.Y.: America Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:",
"text": "But meanwhile, We say frankly that so far We do not have sufficient reason to regard the norms given by Pope Pius XII in this matter as surpassed and therefore not binding; they must therefore be considered valid, at least until we feel in conscience bound to modify them.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
59,
61
],
[
118,
120
],
[
148,
150
],
[
257,
260
],
[
286,
288
],
[
324,
327
],
[
324,
331
],
[
375,
378
],
[
404,
406
],
[
510,
513
],
[
540,
542
],
[
557,
559
],
[
579,
581
],
[
665,
667
],
[
738,
740
]
],
"ref": "1969 August 1, “Ad honorabiles Viros e publico Legumlatorum Coetu Reipublicae Ugandensis”, in Acta Apostolicae Sedis, volume LXI (overall work in Latin), Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 580:",
"text": "It may be well to begin by introducing each other. Who are We? You are not, perhaps led astray by the opinion held of Us by certain contemporaries; We are a weak and little man like other men, perhaps more so than other men. Have under standing^([sic]) for Our personal littleness. But We make so bold as to présent^([sic]) Ourself to you under a twofold title: one title is Our own—it is the great love We have for Africa, for you, and for the Peoples you gövern^([sic]) and represent; the other title is not Our own—it was conferred upon Us, and it makes Us humble and bold as We come among you: you know it well, it is the title of Pope, which means Father; and We inherited it from Saint Peter, whose unworthy but authentic successor We are.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
44
],
[
119,
121
],
[
173,
175
],
[
213,
215
]
],
"ref": "2000, Ronald Turco, “Book”, in Walk East on Burnside, Portland, Ore.: Imago Books, →ISBN, page 135:",
"text": "“You mean it was luck?” replied Jason. / “Well…in a way,” replied Berger. “It really means more than that. In a sense, We with a capital “W” are favoring your undertakings. We are watching over all. God sees all. We see all.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
200,
202
]
],
"ref": "[2019 November, Samuel Shem [pseudonym; Stephen Joseph Bergman], “The Sick Empire”, in Man’s 4th Best Hospital, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 319:",
"text": "“I too love it,” said Eddie. “Y’gotta be very delicate with cancer patients, and the ‘we’ works like a charm.” He seemed sincere. Naidoo looked worried. “I see the ‘we’ with a capital ‘W,’ the royal ‘We.’ My cancer patients can’t argue with King Eddie—”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Honorific alternative letter-case form of of we, sometimes used when speaking as an important figure or figures."
],
"links": [
[
"Honorific",
"honorific"
],
[
"letter-case",
"letter case"
],
[
"we",
"we#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"honorific"
]
}
],
"word": "We"
}
Download raw JSONL data for We meaning in English (4.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.