me

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Scrabble points
4
Words With Friends
5
Letters
2
Pronunciation
/miː/(UK)
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/miː/(UK) · /mi/(US) · /mɪ/ · /meɪ/ · /me/

Definition of me

29 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
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name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Middle English.
  4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang)Initialism of Mass Effect.
    “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.”
  7. Windows Me (Millennium Edition).

symbol

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

noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of master of engineering.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of managing editor.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism 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.”
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of marriage encounter.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of main engine.
  7. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.
    “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?”
  8. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of methyl.

pron

  1. (first-person, pronoun, singular)The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
    “Can you hear me?”
    “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.”
  2. (archaic, first-person, pronoun, proscribed, singular)The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
    “And I awoke, and found me here.”
  3. (colloquial, first-person, pronoun, proscribed, singular)The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
    “When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.”
  4. (first-person, pronoun, singular)The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
    “Come with me.”
  5. (first-person, pronoun, singular)Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
    “Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.”
    “Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)”
    “Who said that? —(It was) not me.”
    “It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.”
  6. (first-person, informal, nonstandard, often, pronoun, proscribed, singular)I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
    “Me and my friends played a game.”
    “[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.””
  7. (first-person, nonstandard, pronoun, proscribed, singular)I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
    “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.”
    “Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.”
    “Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.”
  8. (first-person, nonstandard, pronoun, proscribed, singular)I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
    ““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.””
    “May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.””
  9. (Early, Modern, obsolete)Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.
  10. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

det

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative, colloquial, regional)Alternative form of my.
    “There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)”
    “I want me money back!”
    “Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!”
    “"What have I ever done to prove me worth, or where I could at least say as I'd made a difference?"”

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Etymology

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).…

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From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”.

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