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

The team also discovered that when this phase uncertainty is considered, cosmic birefringence influences another signal in the cosmic microwave background known as the EE correlation.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

Scientists use the EE correlation to estimate the Universe's "optical depth," an important quantity for studying cosmic reionization.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

The Hull actor is also one of five actors up for the EE Bafta Rising Star prize.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

On Saturday, a spokesperson for BT - which owns EE - said the network was "running as normal" after maintenance was carried out last night, but that it was "monitoring" the situation.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025

To get rid of EE and EO, we must call in the general Canon IV.; which leaves us with EA, AE, EI, and AO—CEsArE, CAmEstrEs, FEstInO BArOkO.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William