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  • Ge
    Ge
    noun
    a family of South American Indian languages spoken in southern and eastern Brazil and northern Paraguay.
  • g.e.
    g.e.
    abbreviation
    (in bookbinding) gilt edges.
  • GE
    GE
    abbreviation
    Georgia (international car registration)
  • ge
    ge
    abbreviation
    Georgia
Synonyms

Ge

1 American  
[zhey] / ʒeɪ /

noun

  1. a family of South American Indian languages spoken in southern and eastern Brazil and northern Paraguay.

  2. a member of any of several Ge-speaking peoples.


Ge 2 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. germanium.


g.e. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in bookbinding) gilt edges.


Ge 1 British  
/ dʒiː /

noun

  1. another name for Gaia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ge 2 British  

symbol

  1. germanium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

GE 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Georgia (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ge 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Georgia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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Vicky Ge Huang is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York, where she primarily covers crypto and retail investing.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

"I am very excited we successfully imaged quantum scars in a real quantum system," said first and co-corresponding author Zhehao Ge, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student at the time of this study's completion.

From Science Daily Dec. 2, 2024

“The oxygen reaction is very slow,” says Ge Zhang, a chemical engineer at Stanford University.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

Fei Ge - or Brother Fei as he is known - was taught that these sinkholes have their own microclimate.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2024

Antaeus, born of Ge, the Earth, and Poseidon, the Sea.

From The Leech by Connell

George Newcomb, GE HealthCare’s controller and chief accounting officer, stepped in as interim CFO last week after James Saccaro left to join Zoetis as chief financial and operating officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

GE HealthCare Technologies said tariff refunds had contributed 18 cents of the $1.24-a-share it reported in earnings for the quarter ended June 30.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

GE Vernova GEV 2.12%increase; up pointing triangle and Caterpillar CAT 0.69%increase; up pointing triangle have gained 55% and 47%, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

CFM International, a joint venture between France's Safran and the US-based GE Aerospace, is closely monitoring the debate.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

With no companies like GE buying scrap for their manufacturing operations, or shipping companies like Patel Global Transit looking to buy scavenge to sell overseas, the ship-breaking yards were idle.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

And while some newsrooms quickly dismiss the criticism, ge says, others may pause and think twice about what they write.

From Seattle Times Feb. 20, 2024

The plants'a ge and locality piqued the interest of Fabiany Herrera, the Negaunee assistant curator of fossil plants at the Field Museum in Chicago, and his student, Palma-Castro.

From Science Daily Dec. 7, 2023

If he wanted to make money, ge said, “My father felt strongly that I should go to New York.”

From New York Times Aug. 23, 2022

"We’ve got local, state, and federal agents all working together trying to put the pieces of this puzzle together," ge added.

From Fox News Dec. 26, 2020

Pres. part. in ind. ge of past part. turned into i or y. 3d plural in en.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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