ourselves

Definition of ourselves in English English dictionary: 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.; we; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate
We did it ourselves.; {p} recip, we, not any other persons; Ourself (&?;); A speaker or writer sometimes uses ourselves to refer to people in general. Ourselves is used as the object of a verb or preposition when the subject refers to the same people. We all know that when we exert ourselves our heart rate increases; emphasis You use ourselves to emphasize a first person plural subject. In more formal English, ourselves is sometimes used instead of `us' as the object of a verb or preposition, for emphasis. Others are feeling just the way we ourselves would feel in the same situation The people who will suffer won't be people like ourselves; An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case; {i} our own persons; to our own persons; by our own persons; us; by us; sing; Ourselves is the first person plural reflexive pronoun; You use ourselves to refer to yourself and one or more other people as a group. We sat round the fire to keep ourselves warm It was the first time we admitted to ourselves that we were tired; If you say something such as `We did it ourselves', you are indicating that something was done by you and a particular group of other people, rather than anyone else. We villagers built that ourselves, we had no help from anyone; usself
between ourselves: between the two of us, involving only the two of us, just for you and me to know (as of a secret)
keep it to ourselves: keep a secret, not reveal to others