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  • mae
    mae
    adjective
  • Mae
    Mae
    noun
    a female given name, form of Mary.
  • M.A.E.
    M.A.E.
    abbreviation
    Master of Aeronautical Engineering.

mae

1 American  
[mey] / meɪ /

adjective

Scot.
  1. more.


Mae 2 American  
[mey] / meɪ /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Mary.


M.A.E. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Master of Aeronautical Engineering.

  2. Master of Art Education.

  3. Master of Arts in Education.


Etymology

Origin of mae

before 900; Middle English (north and Scots), Old English mā; cognate with German mehr, Old Norse meir, Gothic mais. See more

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Barzal then had a 2-on-1 break alongside Eberle but chose to shoot the puck himself for his 16th to mae it 5-1.

From Washington Times May 8, 2021

At the age of 40, or thereabouts, Luang Poh Yaai again remembered her past lives, stopped drinking and became a white-robed Buddhist nun, or mae chee.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2016

He mae the statement just as Chicago aldermen were in the midst of a committee hearing trying to understand the proposal floated by a California firm.

From Chicago Tribune Aug. 14, 2012

The Wicked Age. mae west betrayed her public.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pat, Pat Prydges . . . he sae he pay mae voman, one-huntred; mae, two huntred; mae chil'en . . ." he smiled again, bigly and blandly, "mabbee, five, ten.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

At the precipice of the financial crisis, the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with their implicit government guarantee and imprimatur, either securitized or guaranteed roughly half of all mortgages in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

And JPMorgan is among the banks fighting for a role to lead what could be a giant stock offering for the federal mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

This company and Fannie Mae together have purchased and securitized about 70% of current U.S. mortgages, according to AmeriSave’s estimate.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

In Mae Sot, she joined a high school set up for refugees, and that's where she heard about an agency offering students the opportunity to study in Finland.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Mom has never been in jail before, but Grandma Mae was always worried she’d end up there.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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