noun
Meaning 1
The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Examples
- What your @?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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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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/æt/
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rhymes with -æt
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/ət/
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homophone: (some accents) it
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homophone: at
prep
Meaning 2
At a rate of (so much each).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 15 items @ $10
- @ 80 km/h
Meaning relationships
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prep
Meaning 3
At (any sense).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- @ 20°C
- Text message: “im @ school.”
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symbol
Meaning 4
Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
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symbol
Meaning 5
By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Kosov@; Pin@y
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symbol
Meaning 6
Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Malaysia, Singapore
Examples
- Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive
Examples
- Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
- He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: a — at a rate of
- Danish: à — at a rate of
- Dutch: à — at a rate of
- German: à — at a rate of
- Hungarian: à — at a rate of
- Norwegian Bokmål: à — at a rate of
- Swedish: à — at a rate of