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    ae
    adjective
  • AE
    AE
    account executive.
  • Æ
    Æ
    pen name of George William Russell.
  • ae-
    ae-
    for words with initial ae-, see their variant spelling with initial e-.
  • ae.
    ae.
    abbreviation
    at the age of; aged.
  • a.e.
    a.e.
    abbreviation
  • A.E.
    A.E.
    abbreviation
    Agricultural Engineer.

ae

1 American  
[ey] / eɪ /

adjective

Scot.
  1. one.


ae 2 American  
Or æ
  1. a digraph or ligature appearing in Latin and Latinized Greek words. In English words of Latin or Greek origin, ae is now usually represented by e, except generally in proper names (Caesar ), in words belonging to Roman or Greek antiquities (aegis ), and in modern words of scientific or technical use (aecium ).


AE 3 American  
  1. account executive.

  2. Æ

  3. American English.


Æ 4 American  
Or AE,
  1. pen name of George William Russell.


ae- 5 American  
  1. for words with initial ae-, see their variant spelling with initial e-.


ae. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. at the age of; aged.


a.e. 7 American  

abbreviation

  1. Mathematics. almost everywhere.


A.E. 8 American  

abbreviation

  1. Agricultural Engineer.

  2. Associate in Education.

  3. Associate in Engineering.

  4. Æ


A.E. 1 British  

noun

  1. the pen name of (George William) Russell

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ae 2 British  
/ e /

determiner

  1. one; a single

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ae. 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. aetatis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ae1

Middle English ( Scots ) ā-, Old English ān one; cf. a 1

Origin of ae.6

From the Latin word aetātis

Example Sentences

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They ae up nearly 154% for the year so far.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

The Angels ae 46-59 since Nevin took over as manager.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2022

"We ae proud of each and every one of them," he says.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2022

The Cowboys ae sending Cooper to the Browns to save about $16 million in salary cap space.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2022

I'll na open the door, Lord John," she said,85 "I'll na open it to thee, Till ye grant to me my ae request, And a puir ane it's to me.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Mr. Berg is a research director and Mr. Rosenblatt is CEO of AE Studio.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 25, 2025

“A home often represents decades of memories, but also deferred maintenance and missed opportunities to maximize value,” said Mike Casey, a certified financial planner with AE Advisors.

From MarketWatch Dec. 20, 2025

What AE framed as playful wordplay struck a nerve with critics, who argued it echoed historic eugenics rhetoric, particularly given the ad’s focus on her physical appearance like her blond hair and blue eyes.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2025

AE: When it comes to neon, I think it’s a medium that I’ll continue to work with until I can’t.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2025

Taking the height of the figure AE from the elevation, we measure it on Aa; as in this instance A touches the ground line, it may be used as a line of heights.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)

They welcomed a son, X Æ A-Xii, in May 2020, and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, in December 2021.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2023

In 2020, she also teamed up with the mood music company Endel to create an AI-generated lullaby for her first child, named X Æ A-12, with SpaceX founder and Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2023

Musk, 35, and Grimes, 51, also have a son named X Æ A-12, pronounced “X Ash A Twelve.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2023

Dubbed the war room, the space was strewn with toys and 2-year-old X Æ A-Xii, one of Musk’s children, was running around.

From Washington Post Nov. 22, 2022

What an antidote to such representation might be found in the stories of Hector and Andromache, Siegfried and Brünnehilde, Dido and Æ neas, Orpheus and Eurydice, St. Francis and St. Clare!

From The Art of the Story-Teller by Shedlock, Marie L.

Item, in the second example, let ae. bee greater then io.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Wherefore seeing the parts au. and ue. are equall, ae. the assigned right line is divided into two equall portions.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

For let the right lines ae. and ai, cut one another at a, and let two parallell lines uo, and ei, cut them; I say, as au, is to uo, so ae, is to ei.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

As in the same example uy. cutting ae. it shall also cut io.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

And let there be cut off from the same ae. by applying of a rular made equall to io. the lesser, portion au. as here.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Also among Mr. Stoppard’s most indelible achievements was “The Invention of Love,” his elegiac and beautifully compassionate play about the poet A.E.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2025

Planning for the renovation began in the summer of 2019, when the A.E.

From Washington Times Dec. 20, 2020

This week’s mini-episode finds Prudence visited by novelist A.E.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2020

Dozens of watermen, seafood processors and state and local officials gathered at the seafood company A.E.

From Washington Post Mar. 3, 2020

Robert M., the younger son of James H., was taken into the firm a few years after A.E.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

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