we

1. (royal) The sovereign alone in his or her capacity as monarch. (This is the royal we. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)Examples: "We are Queen of all these Isles."first-personnominativepersonalpluralpronoun

2. (colloquial) Everyone being addressed.Examples: "Good evening everyone. How are we all tonight?"colloquialfirst-personnominativepersonalpluralpronoun

3. (colloquial; may sometimes seem patronising) An individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given. (Sometimes called the nurse's we or the doctor's we.)Examples: "Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning?"; "You've been spending all your money boozing when you have a wife and family to support. I think we need to get our priorities straight."; "“Well, my dear ma’am, and how are we?” inquired Wosky in a soothing tone. / “Very ill, doctor—very ill,” said Mrs. Bloss in a whisper."colloquialfirst-personnominativepersonalpluralpronoun

4. (colloquial, uncommon) Used to refer to a third person, especially someone in the speaker's care.Examples: ""I've just been to see Mrs Miggins." — "And how is she?" — "I'm afraid we aren't too good today.""colloquialfirst-personnominativepersonalpluralpronoununcommon

5. Used to connect to or include readers or listeners.Examples: "Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First we take 200 g of butter and we whisk in 200 g of sugar. Next, we ..."; "All Vice President [Mike] Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people."; "[Today is] not a day to think about fishing so we will get back to working on the shelter. [cut in video] Cool, so I guess the best analogy for this, then, is that we've basically framed the house, and now we get to shingle."colloquialfirst-personnominativepersonalpluralpronoun

6. (colloquial) Used when talking to oneself to refer to oneself.Examples: "Now then ... let me see ... I hope I'm doing this right ... if we just connect these two wires together ..."colloquialfirst-personnominativepersonalpluralpronoun