me
/mi/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 6.48 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
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Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.
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Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).
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Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).
symbol
Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.
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The mass of the Earth specifically.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier."
- "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."
- "And I awoke, and found me here."
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”). 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”.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mi, mīra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mi/
- British English: /miː/