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We'd never know whether we were ourselves or one of the other girls--we're so exactly alike, you know.

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  1. pronoun Used by the speaker or writer to indicate the speaker or writer along with another or others as the subject: We made it to the lecture hall on time. We are planning a trip to Arizona this winter.
  2. pronoun Used to refer to people in general, including the speaker or writer: "How can we enter the professions and yet remain civilized human beings?” (Virginia Woolf).
  3. pronoun Used instead of I, especially by a writer wishing to reduce or avoid a subjective tone.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English wē; see we- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also wee; from Middle English we, from Anglo-Saxon wē = Old Saxon wī = OFries. wī = Dutch wij = Old High German MUG. G. wir = Icelandic vēr, vær = Swedish Danish vi = Goth, weis, from Teutonic *wīz, *wīs, with apparently nominative suffix -s, prob. = Sanskrit vayam, we. The L. and Greek forms are different; Latin nos, plural (including dual), = Greek νώ, dual; Greek ἡμεῖς, we, apparently belonging to the stem of ἐμέ, etc., me (see me). In Anglo-Saxon wē had a dual, wit, which disappeared in the earliest Middle English period. See I, me, our, and us.
 

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