Standard Lemma guide

e

character · name · noun · num · pron · symbol · 24 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • letter, name: /ˈiː/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iː
  • phoneme: /ɛ/
  • phoneme: /iː/
  • phoneme: /ɪ/
  • phoneme: /ə/
  • phoneme: /eɪ/
  • phoneme, usually: /ɛ/
  • phoneme, usually: /iː/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • letter, name: /iː/
  • /ʌ/
  • ŭ
  • rhymes with -ʌ
  • /ɛ/
  • ĕ
  • rhymes with -ɛ
  • /ˈiː/
  • CMU ARPABET: IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

character

Meaning 1

The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: letter, lowercase

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

Abbreviation of Elohist.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Topics: lifestyle, religion

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

Abbreviation of Eni.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Topics: business, finance, stock-ticker-symbol

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

name

Meaning 7

A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

name

Meaning 8

A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Examples

  • The sax comes in on the e of one.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Qualifier: chiefly LGBTQ

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25, In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art [...]
  • 2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), →ISBN, page 198, My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.
  • 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 125, Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.
  • 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, →ISBN, page 103, But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.”

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

Abbreviation of episode (“installment of a series”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Examples

  • The pilot episode is S01E01.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

Initialism of execution.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Qualifier: rhythmic gymnastics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

num

Meaning 16

The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: lowercase

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

pron

Meaning 17

A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: epicene, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

symbol

Meaning 18

Abbreviation of everyone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Qualifier: ESRB rating

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

symbol

Meaning 19

East.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

noun

Meaning 20

the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character

21

noun

Meaning 21

the base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately equal to 2.718282...

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: transcendental number

22

noun

Meaning 22

the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: east, due east, eastward

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cardinal compass point

23

noun

Meaning 23

a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: einsteinium, Es, atomic number 99

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metallic element, metal

24

noun

Meaning 24

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vitamin E, tocopherol

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: antioxidant, fat-soluble vitamin

Narrower terms: alpha-tocopheral

History

Etymology

The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, Ea, Eo, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters: * Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e). * Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ). * Old English digraph Ea, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea). * Old English digraph Eo from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo). * Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

Abbreviation.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂 (È).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 /诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ55.

Unknown.

From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.

From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.

Across languages

Translations

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 鄂 (È) — ancient nation
  • Japanese: 鄂 (gaku) — ancient nation
  • Central Kurdish: ئێ (ê) — ancient nation
  • Vietnamese: ngạc — ancient nation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 誒話 /诶话 (ê̄huà) — a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County
  • Chinese Mandarin: 五色話 /五色话 (wǔsèhuà) — a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County
  • E: 誒 — a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County
  • Alabama: ìika — name of the letter E, e
  • Arabic: إِي (ʔī) — name of the letter E, e
  • Arabic: إِيه (ʔīh) — name of the letter E, e
  • Asturian: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Bengali: ই (i) — name of the letter E, e
  • Bulgarian: е (e) — name of the letter E, e
  • Catalan: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Esperanto: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Finnish: ee — name of the letter E, e
  • French: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Galician: e — name of the letter E, e
  • German: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Greek: ι (i) — name of the letter E, e
  • Hawaiian: ʻē — name of the letter E, e
  • Hindi: ई (ī) — name of the letter E, e
  • Ido: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Irish: é — name of the letter E, e
  • Irish: edad — name of the letter E, e
  • Irish: eabhadh — name of the letter E, e
  • Japanese: イー (ī) — name of the letter E, e
  • Korean: 이 (i) — name of the letter E, e
  • Latin: ē — name of the letter E, e
  • Malay: i — name of the letter E, e
  • Marathi: ई (ī) — name of the letter E, e
  • Occitan: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Persian: ای (i) — name of the letter E, e
  • Persian: ئی ('i) — name of the letter E, e
  • Portuguese: é — name of the letter E, e
  • Portuguese: ê — name of the letter E, e
  • Russian: и (i) — name of the letter E, e
  • Russian: е (je) — name of the letter E, e
  • Russian: э (e) — name of the letter E, e
  • Spanish: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Thai: อี (ii) — name of the letter E, e
  • Turkish: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Vietnamese: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Welsh: e — name of the letter E, e
  • Chinese Cantonese: E仔 (ji1 zai2) — slang: ecstasy
  • Czech: éčko — slang: ecstasy
  • French: Hebrew — slang: ecstasy
  • Thai: ยาอี — slang: ecstasy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 補 /补 (bǔ) — slang: estrogen/estradiol
  • French: E — slang: estrogen/estradiol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 戊 (wù) — grade below D
  • Swedish: E — grade below D
  • Swedish: A — abbreviation of episode
  • German: O — east
  • Swedish: Ö — east