de
preposition
from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin).
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de'prepositiondei (used in Italian names as an elided form ofdei ).
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de-
de-a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide ); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify ), negation (demerit; derange ), descent (degrade; deduce ), reversal (detract ), intensity (decompound ).
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D.E.
D.E.abbreviationDoctor of Engineering.
de
1 American
[duh, duh, de, di]
/ də, də, dɛ, dɪ /
preposition
DE
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American
de'
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American
[duh, de]
/ də, dɛ /
preposition
de-
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D.E.
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American
abbreviation
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Doctor of Engineering.
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driver education.
de-
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British
prefix
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removal of or from something specified
deforest
dethrone
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reversal of something
decode
decompose
desegregate
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departure from
decamp
DE
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British
abbreviation
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(formerly in Britain) Department of Employment
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Delaware
de
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/ də /
de
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abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of de1
From French, Portuguese, Spanish, from Latin dē
Origin of de-4
Middle English < Latin dē-, prefixal use of dē (preposition) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < French < Latin dē- or dis- dis- 1
Example Sentences
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Kevin de Bruyne scored twice as Belgium beat Turkey 3-0 to move up to second in Group A1.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Demonstrators are due to set off from several locations around the city at noon before converging on Plaza de Cibeles in central Madrid.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Photographs showed protesters in the east coast city of Valencia clashing with police officers on Saturday near arts centre Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, which was hosting a real estate summit.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Lean was the brainchild of Leonardo de Moura, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in the early 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The older lady said they were looking for Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Deere DE -0.52%decrease; down pointing triangle is making a bet that artificial intelligence can help farmers make better decisions—and eventually revive sliding sales of farm equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Deere DE 0.43%increase; green up pointing triangle posted higher fiscal second-quarter sales as growth in the company’s construction equipment business helped to offset weakness in its production agriculture segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Nebraska farmer Guy Mills figures he has spent more than half a million dollars over the past eight years on repairs to his Deere DE 1.07%increase; green up pointing triangle tractors and harvesters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
A DE spokesperson said all young people, "regardless of gender or faith", have access to, and participate in, RSE programmes.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
President Fernando DE LA RUA, who took office in December 1999, sponsored tax increases and spending cuts to reduce the deficit, which had ballooned to 2.5% of GDP in 1999.
From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
He was a favorite of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and his paintings have a superficial resemblance both to those of his teacher, Botticelli, and those of his father, Fra Filippo Lippi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Florence's Uffizi Gallery said a tourist fell backwards while trying to "make a meme in front" of a portrait of Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
“I think I used to overdo the cries in my voice,” she said, before replicating her old style: “‘Lo de lo de lo de’ — it’s too much.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
They include sketches believed to be the legs of Giuliano de’ Medici, as included in the New Sacristy near the secret room’s entrance.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
I remember the soft face of Alessandro de’ Medici, the royal bearing of Bosch’s black magi.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mr. Tisci said he was de- and reconstructing the pillars of the house: trenches, car coats and checks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
While still used in food, now it is mainly mined as a chemical agent, water softener, or a de- icer for roads.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
“It was a very, very de- pressing time.”
From MSNBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
“You may want to be buying the stories when they are de- rated and the hopes and dreams have turned to disappointment,” she said.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 3, 2011
Less de- fensibly, the nuns distrusted intellectual challenges to authority.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Mehta, 42, previously worked at the hedge fund D.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Shares fell at the start of the month after the D.E.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Other top performers last year include Citadel, D.E.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
The digital payments company agreed to shareholder D.E.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
In addition to the types already mentioned, three other varieties have been constructed since the war--the Usuelli D.E. type and G class.
From British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by George Whale
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