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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

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 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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

But EE can only control what is accessed by using mobile data using its network - meaning it cannot filter content accessed via wi-fi, which is operated separately.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

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 Weekley, Ernest

For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

I think e.e. cummings said you can understand the poem without knowing what it means.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

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

On the other end of the spectrum, e.e. cummings’ “Next to of course god america i” is a parody of typical campaign rhetoric, mashing together various patriotic cliches.

From Time ● Apr. 7, 2015

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 department also pointed to the ruling in a lawsuit filed by E.E.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

Sam Lamott, the man of honor, read an E.E.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2019

It is E.E. and stands on the hill about ¼ mile N. from the Park.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

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

From observing him down the years, he appears to have a couple of go-to’s - a cor blimey guv’nor cockney one and an ee, bah gum Yorkshire one.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2021

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

“I think,” said the gander, “it’s tee double ee double rr double rr double eye double ff double eye double see see see see see.”

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White