ree
noun
ree
1 American
[ree]
/ ri /
noun
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rees
plural
ree
2
American
[ree, rey]
/ ri, reɪ /
verb (used with object)
British Dialect.
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rees,
present (3rd person singular)
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reed,
past, past participle
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reeing
present participle
Ree
3
American
[ree]
/ ri /
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reesimple
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reessimple
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have reedperfect
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has reedperfect
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am reeingprogressive
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are reeingprogressive
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is reeingprogressive
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have been reeingperfect progressive
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has been reeingperfect progressive
Past
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reedsimple
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had reedperfect
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was reeingprogressive
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were reeingprogressive
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had been reeingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of ree
1350–1400; Middle English < ?
Example Sentences
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Life Hotel, a 98-room property in NYC’s NoMad neighborhood, is offering a f ree third night.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2017
Saturday, with concert by Edmonds High School Band, 11 a.m., ceremony with speakers, noon, ree shuttle bus every 15 minutes, Lynnwood Convention Center, 3711 196th St. S.W.,
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2017
He filtered it, treated it electrically and chemically, tried always to extract rom it a pure solution of antibodies, ree from the injurious by-products that hitherto had rendered the horse serum nearly valueless.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ree is a nominal coin of Portugal, ten of which are equal in value to about three farthings sterling.
The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
"Friends who have parents who are in property have this kind of morbid knowledge that when their parents die, they might be ok," Ms Van Ree says.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023
Flying foxes are known to cooperate, said Rodney van der Ree, an ecologist at the University of Melbourne.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
According to former colleagues at the Langston Hughes Theatre in Seattle, Harris was a playwright and performer who went by the name Ree Perris in the late 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Senior running back and linebacker Xe’ Ree Alexander has played with Banuelos since peewee football, and has seen him dominate opponents every step of the way.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
The other orphans were standing, eyebrows raised, mouths opening, and then a strange grunting sound erupted in Magdalys’s head: Ree rooh arroooh it went, and it sounded frantic, terrified.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
John Plaintext, He shall be mighty beef, our English staple; The worthy Alderman, a butter'd dumpling; Yon pair of whisker'd Cornets, ruffs and rees: Their friend the Dandy, a green goose in sippets.
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
EDINBURGH: printed for macredie, skelly, and muckersy, 52. prince's street; longman, hurst. rees, orme, and brown; black, parry, and co. t. underwood, london; and j. cumming, dublin.
From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison
Then there's the Catabaws, and there's the Catawaws; there's the Cherokees, and there's the ruffs and rees; they are the four great nations.
From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Katherine Cecil Thurston
He showed me the Conde da Barca's library, which, as I knew before, had been purchased at the price of 15,530,900 rees, and added to the public collection.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
Every piece is marked with the number of rees it is worth, so that a mistake can hardly happen.
From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Watkin Tench
"These are specialist species which really need reed beds, long grassy habitats and areas like peat bog and marsh," he added.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Burning reed beds is a quick way to restore them, but everyone knew it should be avoided because it killed soil invertebrates, such as snails and earthworms.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
A 2021 photograph by Maree Clarke is an exception; family members in traditional regalia are seated by a reed canoe, with the skyline of Melbourne in the background, powerfully fusing past and present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
The oboe is a double reed and it’s the purest waveform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
But the muvuki unrolled a reed mat on the ground and removed four hakata, or divining sticks, from the pot.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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