Mee

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mee¹

  • /miː/ UK
  • /mi/ US

Sounds like me, Me · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.

pronoun

  1. obsolete, personal, pronoun Obsolete spelling of me.me Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
  2. emphatic, obsolete, personal, pronoun obsolete emphatic of me Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]

mee²

  • /miː/ UK
  • /mi/ US

Sounds like me, Me · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).

noun mees

  1. Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable Chinese-style wheat noodles. He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.
  2. Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles. curry mee    prawn mee soup

Mee³

Where it comes from

* As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer.

* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadhach (“honorable”). Compare Meehan, McNamee.

* As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus.

* (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

proper noun Mees

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.

MEE⁴

noun MEEs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of multiple effect evaporator.multiple effect evaporator

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