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    ae
    adjective
  • AE
    AE
    account executive.
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    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  
[ay] / 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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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

New hospitalizations ae also ticking upward, although not as dramatically as the new cases.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2020

He lap on ae milk-white steed, And she lap on anither, And syne the twa rade out the way Like sister and like brither.

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

The largest shareholder of York Space is AE Industrial Partners, a private-investment firm with $7.5 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 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

"Why write a jail journal?" queried AE, smiling towards the corner.

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell

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

Danish, an often staccato language spoken by only about six million people and whose alphabet includes the letters Æ, Ø and Å, is perhaps an unlikely choice for pop’s next lingua franca.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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

Note in particular: The letter Æ æ is alphabetized as ae.

From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

And to i. a point assigned, grant that io. equall to the same ae. may bee set.

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

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

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

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 William Bedwell

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 William Bedwell

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 William Bedwell

He carries his survey up to the present day and writes adeptly about three currently active poets: Alice Oswald, Sasha Dugdale and A.E.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In the hall hang framed letters Stoppard has collected, including one from A.E.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

Other chapters of “The Age of Decadence” address the era’s widespread fixation on eugenics, its crisis of religious faith, the poetry of Thomas Hardy, A.E.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2021

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

Karpinski are also to be found in two other volumes of this series, while certain studies in Roman Law and administration by Professors A.E.

From The University of Michigan by Wilfred Shaw

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