Etymology

Pronoun

1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
2. The speaker/writer alone. (The use of we in the singular is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)

Determiner

1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

   We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.