name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
mee
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
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Received-Pronunciation: /miː/
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General-American: /mi/
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homophone: me
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homophone: Me
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rhymes with -iː
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CMU ARPABET: M IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Chinese-style wheat noodles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 4
With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
Examples
- curry mee prawn mee soup
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pron
Meaning 5
Obsolete spelling of me.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete, personal, pronoun
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pron
Meaning 6
obsolete emphatic of me
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, emphatic, obsolete, personal, pronoun
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History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadhach (“honorable”). Compare Meehan, McNamee. * As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus. * (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee
Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: kiinalaiset nuudelit — Chinese-style wheat noodles
- Finnish: kiinalaiset nuudelit — dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles