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    ae
    adjective
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    AE
    account executive.
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    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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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

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

From Washington Times Jun. 28, 2020

"An' never ae piece o' pork," lamented Macro.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

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: That is precisely what I’m trying to get out.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2025

Ae Fond Kiss AE fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Their son together, X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2020.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 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 Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson)

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

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

And ae. doth touch the helix or spirall.

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

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

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

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

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

From Slate Sep. 11, 2020

Named for Laurence Housman — peace activist, suffragist and younger brother of the poet A.E.

From New York Times Dec. 12, 2019

"A Woman's Voice" and "Forgiveness" are poems so simple that none may misunderstand; they have the human call so rare in "A.E.," but it is not a strong human call.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius

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