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• Ce
  Ce

  cerium.
• -ce
  -ce

  a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.
• c.e.
  c.e.

  abbreviation

  buyer's risk.
• C.E.
  C.E.

  abbreviation

  Chemical Engineer.
• CE
  CE

  abbreviation

  chief engineer

Ce

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. cerium.

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-ce ² American  

1. a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.

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c.e. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. buyer's risk.

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c.e. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. compass error.

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C.E. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Chemical Engineer.

2. chief engineer.

3. Church of England.

4. Civil Engineer.

5. (in the) Common Era.

6. Corps of Engineers.

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Ce ¹ British  

symbol

1. cerium

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CE ² British  

abbreviation

1. chief engineer

2. Church of England

3. civil engineer

4. Common Entrance

5. Common Era

6. Communauté Européenne (European Union)

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CE Scientific  

1. Abbreviation for Common Era.

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Etymology

Origin of -ce²

Middle English, Old English -es adverb suffix, originally genitive singular ending; see -s ¹

Origin of c.e.³

From Latin cāveat emptor “may the buyer beware”

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Ce -ce C.E. CE

Ce Ce rallied from fourth in the five-horse field to win by 2½ lengths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

Ce Ce, a 6-1 shot, won the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint by 2 1/2 lengths.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

It is from a French intellectual and reads: “Ce n’est qu’un au revoir, mes frères / Ce n’est qu’un au revoir”, this being the French version of Auld Lang Syne.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016

Although the charge was personal and not an appropriate business expense, Kaplan claimed that the $4,950 Ce Soir charge was for concert tickets for MP to see Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium.

From Forbes ● Oct. 17, 2012

The young ladies, I suspect, would exclaim, as you do here, when explaining why you cannot permit any English innovations among you, "Ce n'est pas dans nos mœurs."

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope

It is an instance of excess of expression in the way of syntax; the -ce denoting direction from a place, and the preposition doing the same.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Words ending in -ge, -ce, or -se, retain the e before endings: as, arrange, arrangement; arrange, arranging.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood

And in Italy, I learned that the extremely high level of bathing culture circa 200 C.E. has completely disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

In 985 C.E., he sailed deep into a southern Greenland fjord.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025

Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have found thousands of horse burials in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Poland dated between 0 C.E. to the 1200s.

From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2024

In the Late Classic period, from 600 C.E. to 800 C.E., the city was the capital of the K’anwitznal kingdom in the southern Maya lowlands.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024

‘In 79 C.E., Vesuvius erupted and covered the town in ash.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

CE expects a total of 75bps of hikes to the repo rate this cycle, taking it to 6.00% in the first half of 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Putellas attended summer football camps ran by Xavi and played for local side CE Sabadell as a child.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Beijing’s support of the sector, underscored by President Xi’s remarks last week at an AI conference, should provide further boost to market sentiment, CE adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Caroline Glennon, head teacher at St Patrick's CE Primary Academy in Solihull, says her school will show the highlights or the full game on Monday morning for her "World Cup mad" students.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

They are discussed in Book 5 of Quintilian’s Institutes of the Orator, a work which dates to the first century CE.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton