mee

M3E1E1
UK/miː/US/mi/

noun

Chinese-style wheat noodles.

“curry mee    prawn mee soup”

Less commonScrabble 5

Meanings

mee1

pronounmee (personal pronoun)
  1. obsoletepersonalpronounObsolete spelling of me.

    Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, scene vii]
  2. emphaticobsoletepersonalpronounobsolete emphatic of me

    Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]

    1667, John Milton, “Book LXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 236-238

mee2

nounmee (countable and uncountable, plural mees)

plural mees

  1. MalaysiaSingaporecountableuncountablecookingChinese-style wheat noodles.

    He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.

    1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 7, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy; 1), London: Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 115
  2. MalaysiaSingaporecountableuncountablecookingWith a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.

    curry mee    prawn mee soup

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    We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork […] Its name […] was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.

    1935, Alec Dixon, chapter XIII, in Singapore Patrol, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, page 107

    Hokkien Prawn Mee – Pork and prawns in yellow noodles. […] Mushroom Mee – Noodles with Chinese mushrooms, minced pork and green vegetables.

    1992, Hugo Dunn-Meynell, “Singapore Street Food”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, London: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 93

    Penang-style prawn mee is spicier and is usually served with more pork than Singapore-style prawn mee. Like Singapore-style prawn mee, the Hokkien mee in this recipe can be combined with fine rice vermicelli.

    2007, Lee Geok Boi, “Wheat Noodles in Soup and Gravy”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Classic Asian Noodles, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 150

    Braised. Thick. Heavy. These are the key words people associate with lor mee, and it's all true! And it's so dam shiok! If you're a fan of braised dishes with that dark gooey sauce, you'll love this lor mee recipe.

    2016, “Noodles and Rice”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Meatmen Cooking Channel Hawker Favourites: Popular Singaporean Street Foods, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 38

    My former student's kouyteav sachko (mee Champa) is not just any other mee soup. In it is one person's constant reminder of his/her identity heightened in its unique ingredients, taste and flavour and presented vis-a-vis other types of mee soup available in restaurants, kopitiams, hawkers' stalls or at home.

    2023 May 21, Linda Lumayag, “Our identity is reflected in our food”, in The Sun, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: Sun Media Corporation, →OCLC

Mee3

proper nounMee (countable and uncountable, plural Mees)

plural Mees

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.

MEE4

nounMEE (plural MEEs)

plural MEEs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of multiple effect evaporator.

Origin

mee · pronoun

  1. Old Englishmē“me”
  2. Middle Englishmee
  3. Englishmee

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

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mee · noun

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).

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Mee · proper noun

  1. Latinmansus
  2. Old Frenchmeis“farmstead”
  3. EnglishMee

* 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

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Translations

Finnish kiinalaiset nuudelit, kiinalaiset nuudelit
  • kiinalaiset nuudelitChinese-style wheat noodles
  • kiinalaiset nuudelitdish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles

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APA

mee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mee

MLA

“mee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mee. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mee.

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