English Explanatory Dictionary

-ee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (i.e., to whom or to which an action is done).
  2. Added to intransitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (that is, who or that does an action).
  3. Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or.
  4. Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical procedure.
  5. Irregularly added to nouns to mean a person somehow associated with the object denoted by the noun.
suffix
  1. Used to form diminutives.
suffix
  1. Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese.
suffix
  1. Alternative form of -y (infinitive suffix).

Word forms

-ee -ees

Etymology

From Middle English -ee, -ē, from Anglo-Norman and Old French -ee, French -é, -ée, endings forming past participle of verbs ending in -er. Doublet of -ate. More distantly related to inherited English -ed.

Synonyms

-ed -cule -el -et -ette -icle -ie -kin -le -let -ling -ole -ule -y mini- micro- nano-

Antonyms

-er -or super- supra- hyper- ultra- uber- macro- arch- over- mega- giga- -zilla grand great

Related words

no tickee, no washee

Translations

Albanian: -të Albanian: -atë Esperanto: -ato Finnish: -tu French: -é French: -ée French: -eur French: -euse German: -e German: -es German: -en Ido: -ato Ido: -ario Irish: -aí Italian: -ato Italian: -ata Italian: -tore Italian: -trice Japanese: 被 Spanish: -ado Spanish: -ada Welsh: -ai
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