EE

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

Definition for ee (2 of 4)

e.e.

errors excepted.

Definition for ee (3 of 4)

E.E.

Early English.

electrical engineer.

electrical engineering.

Definition for ee (4 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

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Example sentences from the Web for ee

Again, it was the EE [Executive Elders] who made those decisions.
Another Mega Church Implodes|Warren Throckmorton|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ee goes froo the parcels cool as a cowcumber until ee routs aht the registered parcels.
The Motor Pirate|George Sidney Paternoster
That'll do, zur; 'ee toald I to carl 'ee, and I hope I ha' carld 'ee properly.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction|Various
Ef you'd a traited me vitty, Jasper, I'd a done more fur 'ee.
The Birthright|Joseph Hocking

Eo is found in yeoman, where it is sounded as o short; and in people, where it is pronounced like ee.
A Grammar of the English Tongue|Samuel Johnson
Her can't get out of an avening now, her hath zent word to me, to tull 'ee.'
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor|R. D. Blackmore

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)

e.e.

abbreviation for

errors excepted

British Dictionary definitions for ee (5 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

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