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• Ce
  Ce

  cerium.
• -ce
  -ce

  a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.
• c.e.
  c.e.

  abbreviation

  buyer's risk.
• C.E.
  C.E.

  abbreviation

  Chemical Engineer.
• CE
  CE

  abbreviation

  chief engineer

Ce

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. cerium.

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-ce ² American  

1. a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.

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c.e. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. buyer's risk.

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c.e. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. compass error.

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C.E. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Chemical Engineer.

2. chief engineer.

3. Church of England.

4. Civil Engineer.

5. (in the) Common Era.

6. Corps of Engineers.

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Ce ¹ British  

symbol

1. cerium

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CE ² British  

abbreviation

1. chief engineer

2. Church of England

3. civil engineer

4. Common Entrance

5. Common Era

6. Communauté Européenne (European Union)

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CE Scientific  

1. Abbreviation for Common Era.

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Etymology

Origin of -ce²

Middle English, Old English -es adverb suffix, originally genitive singular ending; see -s ¹

Origin of c.e.³

From Latin cāveat emptor “may the buyer beware”

Example Sentences

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Ce -ce C.E. CE

Ce Ce won four of her six races including the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2022

Ce Ce, a 6-1 shot, won the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint by 2 1/2 lengths.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

They’ll be attaching three-metre wings and will have 80 dancers behind it dressed as Madonna and George Michael dancing to Tina Turner, Ce Ce Peniston and Kylie Minogue.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2018

Although the charge was personal and not an appropriate business expense, Kaplan claimed that the $4,950 Ce Soir charge was for concert tickets for MP to see Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium.

From Forbes ● Oct. 17, 2012

Words ending in -ge, -ce, or -se, retain the e before endings: as, arrange, arrangement; arrange, arranging.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

It is an instance of excess of expression in the way of syntax; the -ce denoting direction from a place, and the preposition doing the same.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Sometimes the final -e of -ne and -ce disappears, but without affecting the accent; as, tantō�n, istī�c, illū�c.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

And in Italy, I learned that the extremely high level of bathing culture circa 200 C.E. has completely disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

In 985 C.E., he sailed deep into a southern Greenland fjord.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025

Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have found thousands of horse burials in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Poland dated between 0 C.E. to the 1200s.

From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2024

In 568 C.E., according to contemporary records, warlike horse riders from the Mongolian steppes called the Avars surged into the grassy plains flanking the Danube River, in roughly the territory of modern Hungary.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

‘In 79 C.E., Vesuvius erupted and covered the town in ash.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Coupled with steady inflation, Bank Negara could hold rates unchanged throughout 2026 and 2027, CE added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

AI demand may continue to grow, but at a slower pace than expected, as firms likely underestimate the barriers to AI adoption, CE says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

And as Eskimo discovered when it attempted to export towel rails to Australia and New Zealand, both countries abide by international safety standards that are heavily influenced by the EU's CE mark.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Researchers found that people in western Japan had stronger genetic connections to Han Chinese populations, likely reflecting major migration waves from continental East Asia between 250 and 794 CE.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

By the end of the 1500s CE, the total population of what we now call the Western Hemisphere was about one hundred million people.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz