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

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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Words nearby EE

Edward VIII, Edwin, Edwina, Edy's Pie, Edyth, EE, EEA, E.E. & M.P., EEC, EEE, EEG

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

Again, it was the EE [Executive Elders] who made those decisions.
Another Mega Church Implodes|Warren Throckmorton|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her unique phrasing renders the word “Friday” as “fry-ee-day.”
Rebecca Black: 'I'm Being Cyberbullied'|Chris Lee|March 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The tea partiers are lining up like rubes at the “Direct from Gay Par-ee!”
Sarah Palin, the Musical|Tina Brown|November 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST
"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

Papa, can't I go to the zoologerical rooms to see the camomile fight the rhy-no-sir-ee-hoss?
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
I seed two er th'ee men prowlin' roun' in de bushes ez I come 'long.
A Little Union Scout|Joel Chandler Harris
And again: 'I tell 'ee the King and Queen could not bear the presence of he.
Art in England|Dutton Cook
Wk-mi-ser, Corn; a warrior of distinction, of the Ne-caw-ee-gee band.
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. I (of 2)|George Catlin

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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