English Explanatory Dictionary

NE

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Abbreviation of Nebraska: a state of the United States.
  2. Initialism of New English.
  3. Initialism of New England: a geographic region of the United States.
  4. Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2).
noun
  1. Initialism of northeast, a cardinal point of the compass.
  2. Initialism of norepinephrine.
  3. Initialism of northern epilepsy syndrome
adj
  1. Initialism of northeastern.
  2. Initialism of not evaluated.
adv
  1. Not.
conj
  1. Nor.
adv
  1. "Isn't that so?" (used in representations of Maori English).

Pronunciation

/nə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ne.wav

Word forms

NE

Etymology

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

Related words

naught ne exeat nill none
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