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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

“As a comedian, you cannot complain,” Cat Ce, a comedian whose special “Perfect Chinglish” was licensed by JoySauce, said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

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 que c'est for you, evidently, to find yourself in these adventures, like Ouida, "the favourite reading of the military."

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James

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

In 2015, he demonstrated the successful digital unrolling of a charred scroll recovered from a synagogue that burned around 600 C.E.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

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

Some historians have proposed that the eruption occurred later in the fall of 79 CE.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

CE estimates China’s export volumes of solar panels, EVs and lithium-ion batteries, where EU counts as a key consumer, have tripled—while prices have roughly halved since 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"The Port of Rotterdam is a key player in this sustainable transition but their sphere of influence is limited," says Bettina Kampman, from environmental consultancy CE Delft, which works for governments, companies and NGOs.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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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