Etimology
From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed while being used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
pronoun
us
(personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
(Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with give) Me.
(Northern England) Our.
(Northumbria) Me (in all contexts).
Examples
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Used where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:Who's there? —Us. —It's us.Who's going to go? —Us. We'll go.
Who's there? —Us. —It's us.
Who's going to go? —Us. We'll go.
Give us a look at your paper.
Give us your wallet!
She's turned the weans against us!
We'll have to throw us food out.
Look at us while you’re speaking to us.
Could you do that for us?
determiner
us
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
Examples
It's not good enough for us teachers.
Etimology
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.
symbol
us
Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond
Examples
;wait 500 us
The standard units are ns , us , ms , sec , min , and hr .
Because the flash devices are local to the server, the latencies can be microseconds instead of milliseconds and eliminate some traffic that would normally have gone over the storage network.
Etimology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
noun
us
(rare) Alternative form of u's.