We

Part of speech: pronoun

Definitions

1. A pronoun referring to the speaker or writer together with one or more other people
2. Used by a speaker to include themselves along with others in a statement or group action
3. The first-person plural pronoun standing for the person speaking and at least one additional individual

Etymology: The pronoun "we" is one of the oldest words in English, and it has been passed down almost unchanged through more than a thousand years of the language. Its Old English form "wē" was already a first-person plural pronoun, and it sits at the heart of a family of words that stretches across the Germanic languages. German has "wir," Dutch has "we" and "wij," and Swedish, Danish and Norwegian use "vi," all clearly siblings of the English word. The deeper roots reach back to Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral language of most European and many South Asian tongues. Its reconstructed form, "*wéy," meant "we" in the plural, and the same root appears in Sanskrit "vayám" and Avestan "vaēm." Because these words are so closely matched across distant languages, the pronoun is often cited as a clear example of a core word that has survived with remarkably little change.

Antonyms: they