let's

Meanings

1. 1
   contraction

   used before a verb to suggest that the speaker and one or more other people do something

   Let's take the earlier train tomorrow.

2. 2
   contraction

   used before a verb in instructions or encouragement addressed to a group

   Let's look at the evidence one step at a time.

A contraction of let us. The construction developed from the imperative let followed by an object pronoun and became the ordinary English way to make a first-person plural suggestion or exhortation.

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