Standard Lemma guide

us

adj · det · name · noun · pron · 22 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /əs/ weak form
  • /ʌs/ strong form
  • ŭs strong form
  • /əz/ weak form
  • /ʊz/ strong form
  • Northumbria: /ɪz/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌs
  • /juː.ɛs/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: Y UW2 EH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Abbreviation of undersize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Abbreviation of unserviceable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable

Examples

  • The radio is US.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

det

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • It's not good enough for us teachers.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

det

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: proscribed

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

det

Meaning 5

Our.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Northern-England

Examples

  • We'll have to throw us food out.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

  • ICANN is based in the US.
  • legal residents of the contiguous US

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

name

Meaning 7

Initialism of Upper Sorbian.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The relationship between the speaker and some other unspecified person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • There is no us.
  • Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Alternative form of u's.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Initialism of unconditioned stimulus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Initialism of ultrasonography or ultrasound.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

plural of U

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

pron

Meaning 13

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: personal, pronoun

Examples

  • Don't treat us like idiots.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

pron

Meaning 14

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: personal, pronoun

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

pron

Meaning 15

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: personal, pronoun

Examples

  • Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
  • Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

pron

Meaning 16

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: personal, pronoun

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

pron

Meaning 17

People in general.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: personal, pronoun

Examples

  • Grief ages us.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

pron

Meaning 18

The person(s) being addressed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, personal, pronoun

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

pron

Meaning 19

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, personal, pronoun

Examples

  • 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 ...

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

pron

Meaning 20

Me.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, colloquial, personal, pronoun, usually

Qualifier: get; fetch; get; fetch

Examples

  • 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!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

pron

Meaning 21

Me (in all contexts).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Northumbria, personal, pronoun

Examples

  • Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.
  • Could ye dee that for us?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

noun

Meaning 22

North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: United States, United States of America, America, the States, U.S., USA, U.S.A.

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: North American country, North American nation

Narrower terms: Union, North

History

Etymology

Abbreviation.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé Proto-Germanic *uns Old English ūs Middle English us English us 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”).

Abbreviation of United States.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Across languages

Translations

141 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: VS — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Belarusian: but see ЗША (ZŠA) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Chinese Mandarin: but see 美國 /美国 (Měiguó) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Chinese Mandarin: 美- (Měi-) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Dutch: VS — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • French: É-U — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • French: É.-U. — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • West-Frisian: FS — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Hebrew: ארה״ב (arhá"v) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Green Hmong: KT — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • White Hmong: KT — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Indonesian: AS — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Italian: SU — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Japanese: but see USA (Yū Esu Ē) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Japanese: ユー・エス・エー (Yū-Esu-Ē) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Korean: but see 미국 (Miguk) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Korean: 미 (Mi) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Northern Kurdish: AY — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Lithuanian: but see JAV — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Polish: but see USA — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Portuguese: EU — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Russian: but see США (SŠA) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Sardinian: IU — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Spanish: EE. UU. — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Spanish: EU — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Ukrainian: but see США (SŠA) — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Vietnamese: HK — abbreviation of United States — see also USA
  • Arabic: ـنَا (-nā) — objective case of "we"
  • Arabic: إِيَّانَا (ʔiyyānā) — objective case of "we"
  • Arabic: ـنا (-nā) — objective case of "we"
  • Armenian: մեզ (mez) — objective case of "we"
  • Old Armenian: մեզ (mez) — objective case of "we"
  • Bengali: আমাদের (amader) — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: yumi — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: yumitupela — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: yumitripela — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: yumipela — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: mitupela — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: mitripela — objective case of "we"
  • Bislama: mipela — objective case of "we"
  • Burmese: ကျုပ်တို့ (kyuptui.) — objective case of "we"
  • Burmese: တို့ (tui.) — objective case of "we"
  • Catalan: nos — objective case of "we"
  • Catalan: mos — objective case of "we"
  • Catalan: ens — objective case of "we"
  • Chamicuro: a'ti — objective case of "we"
  • Chinese Cantonese: 我哋 (ngo5 dei6) — objective case of "we"
  • Chinese: 阮 (zh-min-nan) — objective case of "we"
  • Chinese: 咱 (zh-min-nan) — objective case of "we"
  • Chinese: 咱人 (zh-min-nan) — objective case of "we"
  • Chinese Mandarin: 我們 /我们 (wǒmen) — objective case of "we"
  • Ngazidja Comorian: sisi — objective case of "we"
  • Czech: nás — objective case of "we"
  • Czech: nám — objective case of "we"
  • Dalmatian: noi — objective case of "we"
  • Dutch: ons — objective case of "we"
  • Eshtehardi: چَما (ĉamā) — objective case of "we"
  • Esperanto: nin — objective case of "we"
  • Ewe: míawo — objective case of "we"
  • Finnish: meidät — objective case of "we"
  • Finnish: meitä — objective case of "we"
  • French: nous — objective case of "we"
  • French: à nous — objective case of "we"
  • West-Frisian: ús — objective case of "we"
  • Georgian: ჩვენს (čvens) — objective case of "we"
  • German: uns — objective case of "we"
  • Greek: μας (mas) — objective case of "we"
  • Hopi: itamuy — objective case of "we"
  • Hungarian: minket — objective case of "we"
  • Hungarian: bennünket — objective case of "we"
  • Ido: ni — objective case of "we"
  • Interlingua: nos — objective case of "we"
  • Irish: sinn — objective case of "we"
  • Old Irish: n- — objective case of "we"
  • Old Irish: don- — objective case of "we"
  • Old Irish: -unn — objective case of "we"
  • Italian: noi — objective case of "we"
  • Italian: a noi — objective case of "we"
  • Italian: ci — objective case of "we"
  • Japanese: 私達 (watashitachi) — objective case of "we"
  • Kabuverdianu: nu — objective case of "we"
  • Kazakh: бізді (bızdı) — objective case of "we"
  • Kituba: beto — objective case of "we"
  • Korean: 우리 (uri) — objective case of "we"
  • Central Kurdish: ئێمە (ême) — objective case of "we"
  • Latin: nos — objective case of "we"
  • Latin: nobis — objective case of "we"
  • Latin: nobis — objective case of "we"
  • Lingala: bísó — objective case of "we"
  • Low German: uns — objective case of "we"
  • Low German: üsch — objective case of "we"
  • Low German: üsseck — objective case of "we"
  • Macedonian: ни (ni) — objective case of "we"
  • Macedonian: нас (nas) — objective case of "we"
  • Macedonian: нам (nam) — objective case of "we"
  • Malay: kami — objective case of "we"
  • Malay: kita — objective case of "we"
  • Māori: māua — objective case of "we"
  • Māori: tāua — objective case of "we"
  • Māori: mātau — objective case of "we"
  • Māori: mātou — objective case of "we"
  • Māori: tātau — objective case of "we"
  • Māori: tātou — objective case of "we"
  • Ngarrindjeri: ngatjagha — objective case of "we"
  • Norn: vus — objective case of "we"
  • Norwegian Bokmål: oss — objective case of "we"
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: oss — objective case of "we"
  • Old English: ūs — objective case of "we"
  • Persian: ما (mâ) — objective case of "we"
  • Pipil: tech- — objective case of "we"
  • Polish: nas — objective case of "we"
  • Polish: nam — objective case of "we"
  • Polish: nami — objective case of "we"
  • Portuguese: nos — objective case of "we"
  • Romanian: ne — objective case of "we"
  • Romanian: nouă — objective case of "we"
  • Romanian: (pe) noi — objective case of "we"
  • Russian: нас (nas) — objective case of "we"
  • Russian: нам (nam) — objective case of "we"
  • Russian: на́ми (námi) — objective case of "we"
  • Scottish Gaelic: sinn — objective case of "we"
  • Serbo-Croatian: nas — objective case of "we"
  • Slovene: midva — objective case of "we"
  • Slovene: midve — objective case of "we"
  • Slovene: mi — objective case of "we"
  • Slovene: me — objective case of "we"
  • Lower Sorbian: naju du — objective case of "we"
  • Lower Sorbian: nas — objective case of "we"
  • Spanish: nos — objective case of "we"
  • Spanish: nosotros — objective case of "we"
  • Spanish: nosotras — objective case of "we"
  • Swedish: oss — objective case of "we"
  • Telugu: మమ్మల్ని (mammalni) — objective case of "we"
  • Ukrainian: нас (nas) — objective case of "we"
  • Ukrainian: нам (nam) — objective case of "we"
  • Volapük: obis — objective case of "we"
  • Welsh: ni — objective case of "we"
  • Wolof: nu — objective case of "we"
  • Zulu: thina — objective case of "we"
  • German: mich — colloquial: me
  • German: mir — colloquial: me