e
characternumeralnounpronounnouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈiː//
- //ɛ//
- //ɪ//
The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
character
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The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
Etymology
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
numeral
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The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
noun
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The name of the Latin script letter E/e.
pronoun
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rareA gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^([sic]), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.
Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.
Etymology
From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.
noun
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informalThe second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.
The sax comes in on the e of one.
Etymology
From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.
Forms
- plural
- es, e's, ees
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