ae
adjective
one.
ae
1 American
[ey]
/ eɪ /
adjective
Scot.
ae
2
American
Or
æ
AE
3
American
Æ
4
American
Or
AE,
ae-
5
American
ae.
6
American
abbreviation
a.e.
7
American
abbreviation
A.E.
8
American
A.E.
1
British
noun
ae
2
British
/ e /
determiner
ae.
3
British
abbreviation
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
New hospitalizations ae also ticking upward, although not as dramatically as the new cases.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2020
Is that an ah or an ae, a ch or a k?
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
In ae braid buik they learned baith,5 In ae braid bed they lay; But when her father cam to know, He gart her come away.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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
So I assured AE that I would be glad to return when he had finished writing.
From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell
Their son together, X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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
At times, Mr. Musk was spotted with his 2-year-old son, X Æ A-12, at Twitter’s office as he greeted employees.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Finlay, and its essays by Mrs. Ellice Pilkington, Sir Horace Plunkett, and Mr. George W. Russell, better known as "Æ," poet, painter, and Editor of the Co-operative weekly, the Irish Homestead.
From The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers
And ae. doth touch the helix or spirall.
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
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
Item, in the second example, let ae. bee greater then io.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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
But while browsing through a rack of books in a downtown store that mainly sold pens and stationery, I noticed Williams’s anthology, picked it up on a whim, and fatedly opened to A.E.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
Prudence is joined this week by novelist A.E.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2020
Named for Laurence Housman — peace activist, suffragist and younger brother of the poet A.E.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
She even had access to the photostats of the old U.S. data that General Lanningham brought to South America after the debacle in the United States in A.E.
From Uller Uprising by John D. Clark
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