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    ae
    adjective
  • AE
    AE
    account executive.
  • Æ
    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  
[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

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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