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a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.

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Other definitions for EE (2 of 4)

-ee

a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee).

Origin of -ee

<French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings <Latin -ātus, -āta-ate¹

Other definitions for EE (3 of 4)

e.e.

abbreviation

errors excepted.

Other definitions for EE (4 of 4)

E.E.

abbreviation

Early English.

electrical engineer.

electrical engineering.

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How to use EE in a sentence

And the Absinthe House has a full list: Other famous imbibers include P.T. Barnum, Oscar Wilde, and General Robert E. Lee.
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Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous.
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The guitar is tuned to E, and an Eminor chord on a guitar just rings and rings forever.
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"He brought Ray Charles to the mix as an influence on rock & roll," E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt once raved.
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E was an Esquire, with pride on his brow; F was a Farmer, and followed the plough.
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True; but as we are far enough now from that point, we must e'en make the best of the bad.
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I can hardly help laughing at this myself; for, Se non e vero, ben Trovato!
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"I supposed you 'adn't, as 'e ain't 'ere, with yer ma," replied the young person.
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Nevertheless, he listened patiently for the thousandth time to the E flat concerto, as Steiniger played it.
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British Dictionary definitions for EE (1 of 5)

ee¹

/ (iː) /

noun plural een (iːn)

a Scot word for eye 1

British Dictionary definitions for EE (2 of 5)

ee²

the internet domain name for

Estonia

British Dictionary definitions for EE (3 of 5)

abbreviation for

Early English

electrical engineer(ing)

(in New Zealand) ewe equivalent

British Dictionary definitions for EE (4 of 5)

-ee

suffix forming nouns

indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er)assignee; grantee; lessee

indicating a person in a specified state or conditionabsentee; employee

indicating a diminutive form of somethingbootee

Word Origin for -ee

via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate 1

British Dictionary definitions for EE (5 of 5)

e.e.

abbreviation for

errors excepted

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