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• Ce
  Ce

  cerium.
• -ce
  -ce

  a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.
• c.e.
  c.e.

  abbreviation

  buyer's risk.
• C.E.
  C.E.

  abbreviation

  Chemical Engineer.
• CE
  CE

  abbreviation

  chief engineer

Ce

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. cerium.

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-ce ² American  

1. a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.

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c.e. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. buyer's risk.

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c.e. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. compass error.

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C.E. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Chemical Engineer.

2. chief engineer.

3. Church of England.

4. Civil Engineer.

5. (in the) Common Era.

6. Corps of Engineers.

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Ce ¹ British  

symbol

1. cerium

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CE ² British  

abbreviation

1. chief engineer

2. Church of England

3. civil engineer

4. Common Entrance

5. Common Era

6. Communauté Européenne (European Union)

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CE Scientific  

1. Abbreviation for Common Era.

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Etymology

Origin of -ce²

Middle English, Old English -es adverb suffix, originally genitive singular ending; see -s ¹

Origin of c.e.³

From Latin cāveat emptor “may the buyer beware”

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Example Sentences

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Ce -ce C.E. CE

The Baffert-trained Medina Spirit, Corniche and Gamine joined Flightline and Ce Ce as nominees to horse racing’s biggest honors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2022

Ce Ce, a 6-1 shot, won the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint by 2 1/2 lengths.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

It is from a French intellectual and reads: “Ce n’est qu’un au revoir, mes frères / Ce n’est qu’un au revoir”, this being the French version of Auld Lang Syne.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016

Although the charge was personal and not an appropriate business expense, Kaplan claimed that the $4,950 Ce Soir charge was for concert tickets for MP to see Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium.

From Forbes ● Oct. 17, 2012

Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte in quarrels as in all else.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

Words ending in -ge, -ce, or -se, retain the e before endings: as, arrange, arrangement; arrange, arranging.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood

It is an instance of excess of expression in the way of syntax; the -ce denoting direction from a place, and the preposition doing the same.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., volcanic ash overwhelmed the city and transformed more than a thousand papyrus scrolls in a local library into fragile, charred remains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Tebtunis papyri include fragments dating from 300 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

And in Italy, I learned that the extremely high level of bathing culture circa 200 C.E. has completely disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

In 985 C.E., he sailed deep into a southern Greenland fjord.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025

‘In 79 C.E., Vesuvius erupted and covered the town in ash.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The complex was occupied between 600 and 1050 CE, roughly 400 years before the Inca rose to power.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Renne and his colleagues had already used sanidine from pumice produced during the 79 CE eruption to test argon-argon dating.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

CE expects the central bank to keep rates unchanged for the remainder of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Caroline Glennon, head teacher at St Patrick's CE Primary Academy in Solihull, says her school will show the highlights or the full game on Monday morning for her "World Cup mad" students.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

They are discussed in Book 5 of Quintilian’s Institutes of the Orator, a work which dates to the first century CE.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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