Meanings
@1
- informalAt (any sense).
@ 20°C
at twenty degrees Celsius
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Text message: “im @ school.”
"you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me.
2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan
present singular third person @s · participle present @ing · participle past @ed · past @ed
- InternettransitiveTo 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)
He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
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Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.
2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2
@2
- Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
- By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
Kosov@; Pin@y
@3
- MalaysiaSingaporeConnecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan
Origin
@ · symbol
The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Full word history & related roots →@ · symbol, conjunction
- Malayatau“or”
- Malay@
- English@
Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).
More words from Malay
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan a
- aat a rate of
Danish à
- àat a rate of
Dutch à
- àat a rate of
German à
- àat a rate of
Hungarian à
- àat a rate of
Norwegian Bokmål à
- àat a rate of
Swedish à
- àat a rate of
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with @
Sounds the same
Cite this entry
@. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%40
“@.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%40. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “@,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%40.
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