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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-ee, suffix. - -ee is attached to verbs that take an object to form nouns with the meaning "the person who is the object of the action of the verb'':address + -ee → addressee (= the person whom someone else addresses).
- -ee is attached to verbs that do not take an object to form nouns with the meaning "the one doing or performing the act of the verb'':escape + -ee → escapee (= one performing the act of escaping).
- -ee is attached to other words to form nouns with the meaning "the one who is or does'':absent + -ee → absentee (= one who is absent).
E.E., an abbreviation of: - electrical engineer.
- electrical engineering.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024E, e /i/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. Es or E's, es or e's. - Linguisticsthe fifth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
E., an abbreviation of:- GeographyEarth.
- Geographyeast.
- eastern.
- engineering.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-ee, - a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee;
employee; grantee); recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee).
- Latin -ātus, -āta -ate1
- French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings
EE, - Clothinga proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
E.E., - ArchitectureEarly English.
- electrical engineer.
- electrical engineering.
e.e., - errors excepted.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024E, e (ē),USA pronunciation n., pl. E's or Es, e's or es. - the fifth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- any spoken sound represented by the letter E or e, as in met, meet, mere, etc.
- something having the shape of anE.
- a written or printed representation of the letter E or e.
- a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter E or e.
E, - Geographyeast.
- Educationeastern.
- Music and DanceEnglish.
- excellent.
- Expressway.
E, Symbol.- the fifth in order or in a series.
- (sometimes l.c.) (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work is in need of improvement in order to be passing.
- [Music.]
- the third tone in the scale of C major or the fifth tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
- a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
- a written or printed note representing this tone.
- (in the fixed system of solmization) the third tone of the scale of C major, called mi.
- the tonality having E as the tonic note.
- (sometimes l.c.) the medieval Roman numeral for 250. Cf. Roman numerals.
- [Physics, Elect.]
- electric field.
- electric field strength.
- [Physics.]energy.
- [Biochem.]See glutamic acid.
- Philosophy[Logic.]See universal negative.
- Clothinga proportional shoe width size narrower than EE and wider than D.
e, - Physicselectron.
- Physics, Philosophyelementary charge.
e, Symbol.- [Math.]a transcendental constant equal to 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms;
the limit of the expression (1+1/n)n as n approaches infinity. - [Logic.]See universal negative.
e-, - var. of ex-1, occurring in words of Latin origin before consonants other than c, f, p, q, s, and t: emit.
E., - Earl.
- Earth.
- Geographyeast.
- Easter.
- eastern.
- engineer.
- engineering.
- English.
e., - eldest.
- Sport[Football.]end.
- engineer.
- engineering.
- entrance.
- Sport[Baseball.]error;
errors.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ee suffix forming nouns - indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er): assignee, grantee, lessee
- indicating a person in a specified state or condition: absentee, employee
- indicating a diminutive form of something: bootee
Etymology: via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate1 |