EE


  1. a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.

Other definitions for -ee (2 of 4)

-ee

  1. a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee).

Origin of -ee

2
<French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings <Latin -ātus, -āta-ate1

Other definitions for e.e. (3 of 4)

e.e.

abbreviation
  1. errors excepted.

Other definitions for E.E. (4 of 4)

E.E.

abbreviation
  1. Early English.

  2. electrical engineer.

  1. electrical engineering.

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How to use EE in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for ee (1 of 5)

ee1

/ () /


nounplural een (iːn)
  1. a Scot word for eye 1

British Dictionary definitions for ee (2 of 5)

ee2

the internet domain name for
  1. Estonia

British Dictionary definitions for EE (3 of 5)

EE

abbreviation for
  1. Early English

  2. electrical engineer(ing)

  1. (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent

British Dictionary definitions for -ee (4 of 5)

-ee

suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er): assignee; grantee; lessee

  2. indicating a person in a specified state or condition: absentee; employee

  1. indicating a diminutive form of something: bootee

Origin of -ee

4
via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate 1

British Dictionary definitions for e.e. (5 of 5)

e.e.

abbreviation for
  1. errors excepted

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