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@¹

  • /æt/
  • /ət/

Sounds like (some accents) it, at · Rhymes with -æt

preposition

  1. At a rate of (so much each). 15 items @ $10
  2. informal At (any sense). @ 20°C

verb @s · @ing · @ed

  1. Internet, transitive To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name) Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.

noun @s · at

  1. Internet The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter. What your @?

@²

  • /æt/
  • /ət/

Sounds like (some accents) it, at · Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

symbol

  1. Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a. Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
  2. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a. Kosov@; Pin@y

@³

  • /æt/
  • /ət/

Sounds like (some accents) it, at · Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).

symbol

  1. Malaysia, Singapore Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names. Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan

conjunction

  1. Malaysia, informal or Apples @ oranges

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MLA

"@." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/%40. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

@. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/%40

Chicago

"@." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/%40.

BibTeX
@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {@},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/%40},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}