e.
The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
Meaning & usage
The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
Where this word comes from
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
Where this word comes from
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
The name of the Latin script letter E/e.
Where this word comes from
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
Where this word comes from
From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.
The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.
The sax comes in on the e of one.
Where this word comes from
From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.