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uz

uz is the alternative spelling of us.

Meaning of us

Pronoun

us (personal pronoun; the objective case of we)

  1. (personal, pronoun) Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
    • Don't treat us like idiots.
  2. (personal, pronoun) Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
    • Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
  3. (personal, pronoun) We, used in the same circumstances where “me” would be used instead of “I”, e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula
    • Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
  4. (personal, pronoun) Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
    • It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
  5. (personal, pronoun) People in general.
    • Grief ages us.
  6. (colloquial, personal, pronoun) The person(s) being addressed.
    • Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.

See all 13 meanings of us

Proper noun (1) capitalized: UZ

UZ

  1. Initials of Ukrainian Railways or Ukrzaliznytsia.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Uz

Uz

  1. A region mentioned in the Bible whose exact geographical location is unknown.
    • There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 1:1

Origin of uz

From Hebrew עוּץ (uts).

Questions about uz

What does uz mean?
Uz means initials of Ukrainian Railways or Ukrzaliznytsia.
What is uz the alternative spelling of?
Uz is the alternative spelling of us.
What part of speech is uz?
Uz is a proper noun.

Words near uz in the dictionary

  1. Uyo
  2. UYP
  3. UYPs
  4. uytenbogaardtite
  5. Uyuni
  6. uz
  7. uzara
  8. uzarigenin
  9. uzarin
  10. uzaron
  11. uzaroside

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uz (page history and authors); UZ (page history and authors); Uz (page history and authors); us (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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