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NE¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Nebraska: a state of the United States.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of New English
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of New England: a geographic region of the United States.
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2).

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of northeast, a cardinal point of the compass.
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of norepinephrine
  3. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of northern epilepsy syndrome

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of northeastern
  2. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of not evaluated

ne²

  • /nə/

Where it comes from

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né.

Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

adverb

  1. not comparable Not. For she ne dare doo, but to commande.

conjunction

  1. obsolete Nor. That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.

ne³

  • /nə/

Where it comes from

From Māori nē.

adverb

  1. New Zealand, not comparable "Isn't that so?" (used in representations of Maori English). Then, he had only chuckled again and said, “Well, we got him on the way, ne?”

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: northeast, neon, sw, gat, cliticization, nouveau, quoi, nor, not, no, nay, nix, nope, negative, none, never

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noun compass point

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@misc{ne_2026,
  title = {ne},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ne},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}