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Er — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ee intj A dialectal or informal exclamation used much like "eh" or "oh," often in Scottish or Northern English speech.
  • er intj Used to fill a pause while thinking of what to say next.
  • ese noun An informal, chiefly Mexican-American term of address for a man, roughly equivalent to "dude" or "man."
  • he pron Used to refer to a male person or animal already mentioned or understood.
  • it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
  • male adj Of the sex that produces sperm rather than eggs, in humans, animals, or plants.
  • she pronoun Used to refer to a female person or animal already mentioned.

Senses

Er 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).
  • ese Used to form nouns meaning the jargon or language used by a particular profession or being or in a particular context.
  • s Used to form regular plurals of nouns.
  • he (personal, sometimes, _, proscribed, see usage notes) They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
  • it The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
  • male One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
  • she (personal, dated, sometimes, _, affectionate) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

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.

er — full definition

  1. intj Used to fill a pause while thinking of what to say next.
  2. verb To hesitate in speech, making a sound like "er."

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