@

/æt/

@ preposition: at a rate of (so much each).

Preposition

@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)

(Internet, transitive) To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
- Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
- He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.

@ (plural @s)

(Internet) The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.
- What your @?

Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
- Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
- Kosov@; Pin@y

(Malaysia, Singapore) Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
- Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan

Verb
third-person singular present	@s
present participle	@ing
past participle	@ed
past	@ed
Noun
plural	@s
alternative form	at

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).

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What does @ mean?: @ means at a rate of (so much each).
What part of speech is @?: @ can be a preposition, a verb, a noun or a symbol.
How do you pronounce @?: @ is pronounced /æt/.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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