let us

See also: lētus

English

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: lettuce

Verb

let us (third-person singular simple present lets us, present participle letting us, simple past and past participle let us)

1. (formal) Alternative form of let's
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 29:

     “Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.”

   • 1855, Joseph Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church, page 219:

     Let us pray for the whole episcopate or company of bishops under heaven.

   • 2024 October 20, Susanne Sklar, “Supporting Ukraine”, in Centre Daily Times, volume 136, number 91, State College, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Letters to the Editor” section, page 9A, column 6:

     Let us support the good people in what my father always called “the old country.”

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let,‎ us.

Derived terms

• let us go

Anagrams

• Eluts, tuels, Lutes, tules, sutle, Tuels, lutes