me

1. The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
   1. first personpronounsingularAs the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.

      Can you hear me?

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      He gave me this.

      Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, haſt holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.

      1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17, signature Fff, verso, column 2

   2. archaicfirst personpronounproscribedsingularMyself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.

      And I awoke, and found me here.

      1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci

   3. colloquialfirst personpronounproscribedsingularMyself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.

      When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.

      1993 April 28, Harper's Magazine

   4. first personpronounsingularAs the object of a preposition.

      Come with me.

2. first personpronounsingularUsed in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

   Who said that? —(It was) not me.

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   Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.

   Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)

   It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.

   2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 22 May 2017

   Synonyms: I, moi

3. I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
   1. first personinformalnonstandardoftenpronounproscribedsingularAs the subject of a verb.

      Me and my friends played a game.

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      [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.

      Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.

      An employee was recently discussing her weekend on our Monday Zoom call (we go around the Zoom and share what we did over the weekend). She said, “Me and her went to the movies on Saturday night." I couldn’t contain it. I immediately responded with “X and I went to the movies on Saturday night, me and her never do anything, me can’t.”

      2025 June 14, Anna Holmes, “Wait, People Are Bringing Their Whole Family to Job Interviews?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   2. first personnonstandardpronounproscribedsingularAs the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.

      Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.

      2005 October 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #10”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman)

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      One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of "Bel (not) me want to go.

      1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, volume II

      Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.

      1899 July 20, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children’s Department”, in A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 28, Charlotte, N.C.: The Presbyterian Publishing Company, page 14, column 1

   3. first personnonstandardpronounproscribedsingularWould be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.

      May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.”

      1954 February 3, Mrs. John F. Underhill, “The Last Leaf” (Chapter Three: Bear Tracks), in Lawrence Maxwell, editor, Junior Guide, volume 2, number 5, Washington, D.C., page 7, column 2

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      “I should stick to Tarzan,” he [Johnny Weissmuller] explains. “You see, I’m no actor. Well, I didn’t have to act in ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’—just said, ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane.’ I'll never be able to act.”

      1932 June, Katherine Albert, “Hey! Hey! Here Comes Johnny”, in James R. Quirk, editor, Photoplay, volume XLII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Photoplay Publishing Company, page 119, column 2

plural mes

1. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.

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   “Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes. That’s the very point—You can’t be knowing the thing you don’t know, can you?” “No.” “Which me do you know?” “The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,” answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. […] “Do you know the other me as well?” “No. I can’t. I shouldn’t like to.” “There it is. You don’t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?” “Yes.” “And you are sure there can’t be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the me you don’t know must be the same as the me you do know—else there would be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the other me you don’t know must be as kind as the me you do know?”

   1871, George MacDonald, “[At the Back of the North Wind] Out in the Storm”, in Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R[ichard] Stockton, Julian Hawthorne, editors, Masterpieces of the World’s Literature, Ancient and Modern: The Great Authors of the World with Their Master Productions, volume XIV, New York, N.Y.: American Literary Society, published 1899, pages 7514–7515

   The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?

   1948 January, Rog Phillips [pseudonym; Roger Phillip Graham], “Hate”, in Amazing Stories, volume 22, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, page 69, column 2

   “In these last few days I keep feeling that I’m changing, changing into something I don’t quite recognize myself.” / “You’ve become more like yourself.” / “Could there be two mes?” / “Perhaps more than two.” / “It gets worse and worse. So which me do you actually love ?” / “All of them.” / “You’re being slippery.” Her lips curled slyly. “In fact you only love the me in your mind’s eye, and that me doesn’t exist, right?” / “No, that’s the combination of all the yous.” / She laughed. “It’s just as complicated as a mathematical calculation, if you end up with the three-headed, six-armed me, could you stand that?”

   1990, Bei Dao [pseudonym; Zhao Zhenkai], translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette Ternent Cooke, Waves, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 158

   Synonyms: I

1. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKalternativecolloquialregionalAlternative form of my.

   I want me money back!

   1994, John Hodge, Shallow Grave, spoken by Alex Law (Ewan McGregor)

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   There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)

   a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, “The Letter”, in Douglas Kerr, editor, The Works of Wilfred Owen, page 54

   Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!

   1995, Nick Park, A Close Shave

   "What have I ever done to prove me worth, or where I could at least say as I'd made a difference?"

   2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 99

1. entertainmentThe solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

reflexive me's self · adjective possessive me's · plural mes

1. EarlyModernobsoleteIndefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
2. abbreviationAbbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.
3. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of Middle English.
4. computingAlternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).
5. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).
6. abbreviationinitialismslanglifestyleInitialism of Mass Effect.

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   In ME technophobia (or perhaps more accurately, "cyborg-phobia") reaches its zenith with the design of the Reapers' techno-zombies, as they are mutated, abject monstrosities that exist to be fought and killed by the player. Humans who are infected by the Reapers mutate into "Husks," which look like zombies covered with visible blue cybernetic parts.

   2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106

1. astronomyEarth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.
2. sum of partsThe mass of the Earth specifically.

plural MEs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of master of engineering.

   Synonyms: M. Eng., M.Eng., M.Eng, MEng, MASc, M.A.Sc., M. A. Sc.

2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of managing editor.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of medical examiner.

   The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier.

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 52

4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of marriage encounter.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablespacecraftaerospaceInitialism of main engine.

1. abbreviationuncountablechemistryAbbreviation of methyl.

1. computingWindows Me (Millennium Edition).

   Synonyms: WinMe

1. Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.