e

uppercase E · plural es · plural e's

1. letterlowercaseThe fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

uppercase E · plural es · plural e's

1. lowercaseThe fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

plural ees · alternative ee

1. The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

accusative em · adjective possessive eir · noun possessive eirs · reflexive emself

1. epicenenominativenonstandardraresingularthird personA gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

   E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^([sic]), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.

   2000, Jane Love, “Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct”, in James A. Inman, Donna N. Sewell, editors, Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OL, LCC PE1414.T24 1999, page 193

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   Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.

   2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

   Synonyms: ey

alternative ee

1. informalentertainmentThe second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.

   The sax comes in on the e of one.

lowercase e · plural Es · plural E's

1. letteruppercaseThe fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

   On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

lowercase e · plural Es · plural E's

1. uppercaseThe fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

1. abbreviationESRB ratingAbbreviation of everyone.
2. East.

plural Es

1. slangThe drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.

   And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz

   1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp

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   Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .

   1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 156

   You mentioned you were taking stuff. Did you mean ecstasy? / What else? It’s excellent. I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that. People say E is for losers but, hey, I’d never be without some eccy in my bag.

   2002, Hugh Mackay, Winter Close, Sydney: Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 85

2. abbreviationchiefly LGBTQAbbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.
3. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.

   1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25, In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]

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   2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), →ISBN, page 198, My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.

   2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 125, Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.

   2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, →ISBN, page 103, But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.”

   "The A* grade at A-level is the inevitable consequence of the intention to make A-levels harder. As such, it will provide additional recognition for additional achievement. Importantly, it leaves the existing grades A to E untouched, so that standards over time are preserved."

   2006 November 30, Alexandra Smith, “Johnson unveils exam reform plans”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2025

4. entertainmentThe third note in the C major scale.
5. entertainmentA major chord having the notes E–G♯–B as the root, third, and fifth; the major scale with E as its keynote.

   He ordered Chet's guitar course COD Makes A, E, workin' on B Digs C&W an' R&B An' me an' a chimpanzee agree That one day soon he'll be A celebrity.

   1969, “Gitarzan”, Ray Stevens, Bill Everette (lyrics), performed by Ray Stevens

6. abbreviationAbbreviation of episode (“installment of a series”).

   The pilot episode is S01E01.

7. abbreviationinitialismrhythmic gymnasticsInitialism of execution.

1. abbreviationlifestyleAbbreviation of Elohist.
2. abbreviationbusinessAbbreviation of Eni.

   Magnus said that companies such as Italy’s Eni (E) and ConocoPhillips (COP) that already operate in Alaska could be interested in drilling in ANWR.

   2020 August 18, Matt Egan, “It’s a bizarre time for Trump to open Alaska’s Arctic refuge up to oil drilling”, in CNN Business

alternative O

1. historyA state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.

   The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.

   2002, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229

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   These three bronzes, though clearly modeled on Zhou types, are quite distinctive from the Zhou tradition. They suggest that, although the state of E served as an ally and agent of the Western Zhou state, it probably had a distinctive cultural origin of its own.

   2006, Li Feng, Landscape and Power in Early China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 330–331

   A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state. Due to gaps in Chinese historical records, the exact history of the state of E is uncertain. Since the E Shu Gui was salvaged from a pile of scrap copper shipped to the Shanghai Foundry from Hubei province, some scholars have inferred that the gui was excavated from Hubei, therefore proving that the E state during the Western Zhou was located in today's Hubei province.

   2014, Liu Yang, Cast for Eternity, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15

2. historyIts capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
3. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

1. A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

1. A river in Highland council area, Scotland.