Standard Lemma guide
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
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.
name
Initialism of Victory in Europe; used especially in the term VE Day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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pron
Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: epicene, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person
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pron
Pronunciation spelling of we.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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History
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).
