de
preposition
from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin).
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de'prepositiondei (used in Italian names as an elided form ofdei ).
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de-
de-a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide ); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify ), negation (demerit; derange ), descent (degrade; deduce ), reversal (detract ), intensity (decompound ).
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D.E.
D.E.abbreviationDoctor of Engineering.
de
1 American
[duh, duh, de, di]
/ də, də, dɛ, dɪ /
preposition
DE
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de'
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[duh, de]
/ də, dɛ /
preposition
de-
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D.E.
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abbreviation
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Doctor of Engineering.
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driver education.
de-
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British
prefix
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removal of or from something specified
deforest
dethrone
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reversal of something
decode
decompose
desegregate
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departure from
decamp
DE
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abbreviation
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(formerly in Britain) Department of Employment
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Delaware
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/ də /
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abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of de1
From French, Portuguese, Spanish, from Latin dē
Origin of de-4
Middle English < Latin dē-, prefixal use of dē (preposition) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < French < Latin dē- or dis- dis- 1
Example Sentences
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The results were impacted by the expiration of the de minimis loophole last May for China and Hong Kong.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
St. Jeanne de Lestonnac at Fulton, 3:30 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday for a two-day visit set to range from esports to the war in the Middle East.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
While Picasso was on his way downtown, Apollinaire sat in a small holding cell at the Palais de Justice.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Deere DE 0.43%increase; green up pointing triangle posted higher fiscal second-quarter sales as growth in the company’s construction equipment business helped to offset weakness in its production agriculture segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Nebraska farmer Guy Mills figures he has spent more than half a million dollars over the past eight years on repairs to his Deere DE 1.07%increase; green up pointing triangle tractors and harvesters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Separately, there have been warnings from DE to schools that they will face "serious challenges" as their budgets will only rise by around 1% in 2026/27.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
The winners include McDonald’s, Exxon Mobil XOM -2.44%decrease; red down pointing triangle and tractor maker Deere DE 0.07%increase; green up pointing triangle .
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Insert A into DE through E, so that the bulb B is embraced by E. Close D with a cork.
From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by W. A. Shenstone
On Friday, an anonymous collector who goes by Cozomo de’ Medici announced on X that he’d bought two of the dogs, Picasso and Warhol, and former Sotheby’s chief executive Tad Smith bought an “Elon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Florence's Uffizi Gallery said a tourist fell backwards while trying to "make a meme in front" of a portrait of Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
Told during a Zoom interview that Sofia seemed more like Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de’ Medici than a comic book character, Milioti matter-of-factly says, “That’s certainly incredible company to be in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
“I think I used to overdo the cries in my voice,” she said, before replicating her old style: “‘Lo de lo de lo de’ — it’s too much.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
On a spring morning in 1478, Lorenzo de’ Medici, or Lorenzo the Magnificent, and his brother Giuliano, the golden boy of the Medici family, arrived for Mass at the Duomo, the iconic Florence cathedral.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Mr. Tisci said he was de- and reconstructing the pillars of the house: trenches, car coats and checks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
While still used in food, now it is mainly mined as a chemical agent, water softener, or a de- icer for roads.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
“It was a very, very de- pressing time.”
From MSNBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
It had added merchandise to U.S. outlets, reversing an earlier effort to de- clutter stores by offering fewer items.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 28, 2011
Less de- fensibly, the nuns distrusted intellectual challenges to authority.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Shares fell at the start of the month after the D.E.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
The group’s members include a managing director of investment firm D.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
The digital payments company agreed to shareholder D.E.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
FIS, which has been under pressure to explore strategic options from activist investors D.E.
From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2023
Further research in this direction was made by D.E.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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