English Explanatory Dictionary

re

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep
  1. About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
noun
  1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
noun
  1. Clipping of rematch.
  2. Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.
  3. Clipping of age regressor.
name
  1. Alternative form of Ra.
symbol
  1. rupee
name
  1. Reinsurance.
name
  1. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
prep
  1. Alternative form of re (“regarding”).
symbol
  1. Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement.
  2. The radius of the Earth specifically.
name
  1. Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
  2. The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
  3. Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
noun
  1. Initialism of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a “yes” answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. See more at RE (complexity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  2. Initialism of religious education.
  3. Initialism of rare earth.
  4. Initialism of response element.
  5. Initialism of real estate.
  6. Initialism of renewable energy.
  7. Initialism of run-time environment.
  8. Initialism of reverse engineering.
  9. Initialism of reproductive endocrinologist.

Pronunciation

/ɹiː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-re (e).wav /ɹeɪ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-re (note).wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Re.wav

Word forms

re ray res Rs R_E

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Synonyms

about apropos as for anent apropos of as far as as regards as relates to as respects as to concerned with connected with concerning dealing with in reference to in regard to in regards to in relation to in respect of IRT in terms of on re referring to regarding relating to relative to respecting with regard to with respect to WRT touching mul:R_🜨 mul:R_♁

Related words

RE in re in rem

Derived words

co-RE coRE co-RE-complete RE-complete
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