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editorial we's

editorial we's is the plural of editorial we.

Meaning of editorial we

Noun

editorial we (plural editorial wes or editorial we's)

  1. Synonym of plural of modesty (“speaking of oneself as if multiple people, intending to seem modest”).
  2. The first-person plural pronoun used by an editor or other spokesperson when speaking with the authority of their publication, profession, organization, or company.
  3. The practice, common in mathematical and scientific literature, of referring to a generic third person by we (instead of the more common one or the informal you), or of implying that the writer and the reader, or all of humanity, are united as collaborators in thinking the sequence of thoughts that the narrative describes.

Questions about editorial we's

What is editorial we's the plural of?
Editorial we's is the plural of editorial we.

Words near editorial we's in the dictionary

  1. editorial cartoon
  2. editorial cartoonist
  3. editorial cartoonists
  4. editorial cartoons
  5. editorial we
  6. editorial we's
  7. editorial wes
  8. editorialisation
  9. editorialisations
  10. editorialise
  11. editorialised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: editorial we's (page history and authors); editorial we (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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