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    ae
    adjective
  • AE
    AE
    account executive.
  • Æ
    Æ
    pen name of George William Russell.
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    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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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

Proper management of our limited resources and their use in establishing working solutions, long-term responsibility and disciplined progress control is key in accountability to the Seattle community and those who ae homeless and in need.

From Seattle Times Sep. 21, 2021

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

From Washington Times Jun. 28, 2020

O I'll keep well my green claithing Frae ae drap o' his bluid, Better than I'll do your flattering tongue, That flutters in your head.

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

“If the 10-year Treasury reached 5%, it would be an acknowledgement that inflation is now a real problem,” said Ben Sullivan, chief investment officer at AE Wealth Management.

From MarketWatch May 20, 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: That is precisely what I’m trying to get out.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2025

OE and AE are pronounced as one syllable, like "ee" in "free," except when marked as two syllables, as "Arsinoë."

From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray

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

Musk, on the other hand, shares children Exa Dark Sideræl and X Æ A-Xii with singer Grimes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2022

He has two other children, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl - who goes by Y - with singer Grimes, with whom he has had an on-off relationship.

From BBC Jun. 21, 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2022

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

From Slate Sep. 11, 2020

Fortunately for my pocketbook, I already owned Rex Warner’s allegorical thrillers “The Wild Goose Chase” and “The Aerodrome,” the collected stories of A.E.

From Washington Post Nov. 6, 2019

C.M.G., and his Pride in the Battalion 73 "Good-bye and Good Luck"—Brigadier-General A.E.

From The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 by Fred W. Ward

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