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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”

Example Sentences

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Ce -ce C.E. CE

Victor Espinoza rode Ce Ce to his first Cup win since 2015, when the now 49-year-old jockey and Triple Crown winner American Pharoah won the Classic.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

Ce Ce, for Michael McCarthy and Victor Espinoza, finished fourth, while Proud Emma, whose connections were Miller and Prat, finished sixth in the nine-horse field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2019

They’ll be attaching three-metre wings and will have 80 dancers behind it dressed as Madonna and George Michael dancing to Tina Turner, Ce Ce Peniston and Kylie Minogue.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2018

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 James, Henry

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

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

Strontium in the teeth of horses buried in the Baltic region between 0 C.E. and about 800 C.E. was a match for the eastern Baltic, as predicted by earlier archaeologists.

From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2024

Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have found thousands of horse burials in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Poland dated between 0 C.E. to the 1200s.

From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2024

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

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Beijing’s support of the sector, underscored by President Xi’s remarks last week at an AI conference, should provide further boost to market sentiment, CE adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Coupled with steady inflation, Bank Negara could hold rates unchanged throughout 2026 and 2027, CE added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

And as Eskimo discovered when it attempted to export towel rails to Australia and New Zealand, both countries abide by international safety standards that are heavily influenced by the EU's CE mark.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

This need not be confusing; the year 45 BCE is the same as 45 BC, and the year 1945 CE is the same as AD 1945.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz