Ken⋅za⋅bu⋅ro /ˌkɛnzɑˈbʊəroʊ/Show Spelled Pronunciation[ken-zah-boor-oh]Show IPA, born 1935, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel prize 1994.
O·e (ō'ā) Japanese writer. Strongly influenced by the French existentialists, his political and often autobiographical novels include A Personal Matter (1964) and The Silent Cry (1967). He won the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature.
OE abbr. Old English
oer·sted (ûr'stěd') n.
Abbr. Oe The centimeter-gram-second electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic intensity one centimeter from a unit magnetic pole.
[After Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851), Danish physicist.]