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Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.

"We built our own garden so we could tend to it ourselves without hiring anyone else."

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Origin

The word combines the possessive pronoun "our" with the reflexive suffix "-selves." This construction evolved naturally to mean the people belonging to us, serving as the plural form of "myself."

Rhyming Words
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