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E — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ate noun An older sister, or a respectful way of addressing a woman who is older than you, even if she is not a blood relative.
  • ee intj A dialectal or informal exclamation used much like "eh" or "oh," often in Scottish or Northern English speech.
  • ess noun The name of the letter S.

Senses

E is used for these senses in English:

  • 's A possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marker.
  • ee Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (i.e., to whom or to which an action is done).
  • ess Used to form female equivalents.
  • y Forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state.
  • E (mostly, LGBTQ) Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.
  • e (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

ee — full definition

  1. intj A dialectal or informal exclamation used much like "eh" or "oh," often in Scottish or Northern English speech.
  2. noun Enantiomeric excess, a chemistry term measuring how much one mirror-image form of a molecule outweighs the other in a mixture.

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