ree
noun
ree
1 American
[ree]
/ ri /
noun
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rees
plural
ree
2
American
[ree, ray]
/ 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
By various operations the river was forced into a new channel, and a very strong fence, called a ree, was built to ensure its perpetual exclusion.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title by Various
Home-sickness I mourn, and my strangerhood * Irks my soul, nor the riddle of future I ree.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Ree employed animators to recreate scenes from Steen’s World of Warcraft life, drawing on a huge archive of transcripts detailing his conversations and activities.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
For world cinema documentary, Benjamin Ree won the directing prize for “Ibelin.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
"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
Molly McCook stars in this original holiday romance film featuring Food Network star, Ree Drummond.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 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
T rees, especially Scotch fir and larch, grow well, and Braemar is rich in natural timber, said to surpass any in the north of Europe.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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
The king of Ormus was very poor, and lived chiefly on a pension or allowance of 140,000 rees, allowed him by the king of Spain, with some small reserved petty customs.
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
Seiler then had the children of friends write passages on fresh papyrus using traditional reed pens and the prepared inks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
"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
I gripped the reed and wires and waited for the miracle.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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