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• EE
  EE

  a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
• -ee
  -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 ).
• e.e.
  e.e.

  abbreviation

  errors excepted.
• E.E.
  E.E.

  abbreviation

  Early English.
• ee
  ee

  noun

  a Scot word for eye 1

EE

¹ American  

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

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-ee ² American  

1. 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 ).

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e.e. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. errors excepted.

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E.E. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Early English.

2. electrical engineer.

3. electrical engineering.

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EE ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Early English

2. electrical engineer(ing)

3. (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent

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-ee ² British  

suffix

1. 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

2. indicating a person in a specified state or condition

   absentee

   employee

3. indicating a diminutive form of something

   bootee

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ee ³ British  

/ iː /

noun

1. a Scot word for eye 1

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ee ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Estonia

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e.e. ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. errors excepted

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Usage

What does -ard mean? The suffix -ee is used to denote nouns related to the object or beneficiary of an act or the performer of an act. It is often used in everyday and technical terms. The form -ee comes from the French suffixes -é (masculine) and ée (feminine), which are used to designate past participles, much like how -ed is used in English. The suffixes -é and ée come from Latin -ātus (masculine) and -āta (feminine), of the same meaning.

Etymology

Origin of -ee

< French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings < Latin -ātus, -āta -ate ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

EE -ee e.e. E.E. ee

Amendment EE would increase this threshold to 15% of ballots cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“My big problem with EE is that it’s a ruse of reform,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He found that more than one in four data tests across EE, O2, Three and Vodafone failed outright.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Paresh Kharya, VP of product at Taalas, told EE Times that he expects customers to stay with a model for a year or more.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

T, Sheet coagulation tank; C, cylinder for reception and dilution of latex; GG, gutter; PP, raised platform on verandah; SS, steps leading to platform; W, dwarf wall; EE, expanded metal partition; OO, open.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

In spoken English the ending -ew, -ue, of French origin, has been often changed to -ee, -ey.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

The two were never friends, having shared but one conversation about a poem by e.e. cummings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022

In the 1980s, k.d. lang emerged as the e.e. cummings of cowpunk.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021

In publishing, new editions of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet and Robert Frost’s New Hampshire are already on the way, and work from Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, e.e. cummings, and P.G.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2018

That was, until writer and Village resident Margot Gayle rallied her neighbors—who included the critic Lewis Mumford and the poet e.e. cummings—to save the building, first raising funds to get its clock fixed.

From Time ● Aug. 10, 2016

Other examples—such as the work of e.e. cummings—is astonishing in its mastery.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2012

In the decades that followed, in his complementary positions as book critic and editor, Cowley worked tirelessly to legitimize the innovative writing of Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Hart Crane, E.E.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

News of Dickies’ move shook some people in Fort Worth, where the company was co-founded in 1922 by E.E.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

The state Supreme Court convened an emergency hearing Monday to consider special prosecutor E.E.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

Grids are central to the art of E.E.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022

Sedert en is de standt der Moluques grotelijcx niet verandert, soodat ick onnodich achte weder om te verhaelen het gene ick voor desen wijdloopig mijne E.E.

From by

Still, every morning, he would shuffle to his family's tea shop and fry up ee kyar kwe, which are doughsticks.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

Florida must turn to backup quarterback Austin Appleby for Saturday’s game after usual starter Luke Del Rio injured his left kn ee last week in a 32-0 victory over North Texas.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2016

The case centers on a 1997 legal settlement — known as the Flores agreement — that set legal requirements for the housing of children seeking asylum or in the country illegally. ee In July 2015, U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2016

Among other insights, Lieberson ascribed the popularity of certain names to fluctuating subfads for “name sounds”—the J name beginning, the n or ee endings, the hard k inside of the name, etc.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016

“Ee wor a gennelman, ee wor. Ee hadden no proper neame like, not like you may remember, but ee wor a gennelman, that ee wor, and fed un out a porcelain.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White