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Em

proper nounnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

A diminutive of the female given names Emily, Emma, or Emmeline.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given names Emily, Emma, or Emmeline.

    And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!

    Mind you, he never calls me anything back. Isn't that the way of it? What do men call their wives. 'Em...' Like every woman in the planet was christened Emily. 'Em...is that shirt clean?'

  2. 2

    Variant of EminemClipping of Eminem.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of emAlternative letter-case form of em.

Forms

plural
Ems
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).