e — meaning in English
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English meaning
- and conj Used to join two words, phrases, or ideas that go together.
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.
- and (now, colloquial, or, literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
- and Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes. [from 10th c.]
- 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.
and — full definition
- conj Used to join two words, phrases, or ideas that go together.
- conj Used to link two clauses or sentences, often showing a sequence, result, or contrast.