@

/æt//ət/

preposition

At a rate of (so much each).

“What your @?”

Meanings

@1

preposition
  1. At a rate of (so much each).

    @ 80 km/h

    at eighty kilometres per hour

    1 more example

    15 items @ $10

  2. informalAt (any sense).

    @ 20°C

    at twenty degrees Celsius

    2 more examples

    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
verb@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)

present singular third person @s · participle present @ing · participle past @ed · past @ed

  1. 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.

    2 more examples

    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
noun@ (plural @s)

plural @s · alternative at

  1. InternetThe permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.

    What your @?

@2

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

symbol
  1. MalaysiaSingaporeConnecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.

    Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan

conjunction
  1. Malaysiainformalor

    Apples @ oranges

Origin

@ · symbol

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

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@ · symbol, conjunction

  1. Malayatau“or”
  2. Malay@
  3. English@

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

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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 @

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Sounds the same

(some accents) itat(some accents) itat(some accents) itat(some accents) itat(some accents) itat(some accents) itat
Cite this entry
APA

@. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%40

MLA

“@.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%40. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “@,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%40.

Source: @ on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.