ae

The definition of ae is a Scottish term for one.

(adjective)

An example of ae is someone with one child answering how many children they have.

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See ae in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

Scot. one

Origin: < OE an: see one

noun

  1. a ligature used to represent a diphthong in some Latin words, equivalent to ai in Greek, usually written æ or replaced by e in modern spelling of derived English words, as in demon (daemon), ether (aether), etc. and pronounced (ē, i, or e)
  2. an Old English ligature representing a low front unrounded vowel like that in Modern English hat
  3. a character in the International Phonetic Alphabet and some other transcription systems, representing this low front unrounded vowel

Origin: L aetatis

American English

or A.E.

See ae in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Chiefly Scots
One.

Origin:

Origin: Variant of a2

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abbreviation
United Arab Emirates (in Internet addresses)

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