"ourself" meaning in English

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Pronoun

IPA: /aʊə(ɹ)ˈsɛlf/, /ɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛlf/ Audio: en-us-ourself.ogg [US] Forms: of we [reflexive, singular]
Rhymes: -ɛlf Etymology: From Middle English oure-selfe; equivalent to our + -self. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|oure-selfe}} Middle English oure-selfe, {{suffix|en|our|self}} our + -self Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|first person||singular reflexive of|we|||||||||||||||head=}} ourself (first person, singular reflexive of we), {{en-pron|singular reflexive of|we|desc=first person}} ourself (first person, singular reflexive of we)
  1. (reflexive) The reflexive of the royal or editorial we: myself (as used by a monarch, writer or speaker who is referring to themself as we). Tags: first-person, reflexive Translations (reflexive of editorial or royal we): nous-même (French), uns (english: editorial) (German), Uns (english: royal) (German), înșine [masculine] (Romanian), însene [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-ourself-en-pron-ejPaZgzo Categories (other): English reflexive pronouns, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English first person pronouns, English pronouns, English terms suffixed with -self Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 5 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 63 9 29 Disambiguation of English first person pronouns: 46 24 30 Disambiguation of English pronouns: 57 15 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -self: 54 14 32 Disambiguation of 'reflexive of editorial or royal we': 49 20 31
  2. (reflexive) The reflexive of the generic we: oneself. Tags: first-person, reflexive
    Sense id: en-ourself-en-pron-Oj1rsJcU Categories (other): English reflexive pronouns
  3. (African-American Vernacular) The reflexive of the we: ourselves. Tags: first-person
    Sense id: en-ourself-en-pron-cFCapcu6 Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: ourselves [plural]

Download JSON data for ourself meaning in English (5.2kB)

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