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e¹

  • /iː/ letter, name
  • /ɛ/ phoneme
  • /iː/ phoneme
  • /ɪ/ phoneme
  • /ə/ phoneme
  • /eɪ/ phoneme

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).

letter E · es · e's

  1. letter, lowercase The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

number E · es · e's

  1. lowercase The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

noun ees · ee

  1. The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

e²

Where it comes from

From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.

pronoun em · eir · eirs · emself

  1. epicene, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third person A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she. E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^([sic]), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.

e³

  • /ˈiː/

Where it comes from

From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.

noun ee

  1. informal The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat. The sax comes in on the e of one.

E⁴

  • /ɛ/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, Ea, Eo, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:

* Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).

* Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).

* Old English digraph Ea, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).

* Old English digraph Eo from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo).

* Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

letter e · Es · E's

  1. letter, uppercase The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script. On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

number e · Es · E's

  1. uppercase The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

E⁵

  • /ɛ/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

symbol

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of everyone.everyone
  2. East.

noun Es

  1. slang The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form. Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.estrogen or estradiol
  3. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade. 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25, In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]
  4. abbreviation Abbreviation of episode (“installment of a series”).episode The pilot episode is S01E01.
  5. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of execution.execution

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Elohist.Elohist
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of Eni.Eni Magnus said that companies such as Italy’s Eni (E) and ConocoPhillips (COP) that already operate in Alaska could be interested in drilling in ANWR.

E⁶

  • /ʌ/
  • /ɛ/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -ʌ, -iː

Where it comes from

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂 (È).

proper noun O

  1. A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei. The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.
  2. Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
  3. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

E⁷

  • /ɛ/
  • /ɛ/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -ɛ, -iː

Where it comes from

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 /诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.

proper noun

  1. A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

E⁸

  • /ɛ/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ phoneme, usually
  • /iː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Unknown.

proper noun

  1. A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

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