ourselves

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

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

   We should keep this for ourselves.

2. 2
   pron

   Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.

   We did it ourselves.

3. 3
   pron

   Referring to everyone being addressed.

   Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.

4. 4
   pron

   Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.

   Coordinate term: nurse's we

Etymology

Morphologically our + -selves.