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bae

/beɪ/

bae noun: darling (term of endearment).

Noun (1)

bae (plural baes)

  1. (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
    • And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9
    • Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3

Noun (2)

bae (plural baes)

  1. Asian pear.

Verb

bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle baeing, simple past and past participle baed)

  1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
    • He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 3, line 70
    • ...the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, line 10

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BAE

BAE

  1. Alternative letter-case form of BAe (“British Aerospace”).

Noun (3) capitalized: BAE

BAE (uncountable)

  1. (initialism) The ship prefix for ships of the navy of Ecuador.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: BAe

BAe

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of British Aerospace.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Bae

Bae

  1. A surname from Korean.

bae meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

bae in Malayalam

ബെയ്

bae in Kannada

ಬೇಗೆ

Synonyms of bae

All synonyms of bae

Forms of bae

Noun
pluralbaes
Verb
third-person singular presentbaes
present participlebaeing
past participlebaed
pastbaed

Plural of bae: baes

Origin of bae

Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from "before anyone else", a possible backronym.

From Korean 배 (bae).

From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.

Words formed from bae

Words that rhyme with bae

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Questions about bae

What does bae mean?
Bae means darling (term of endearment).
What is bae in Malayalam?
Bae in Malayalam is ബെയ്. See Bae meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is bae?
Bae can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bae?
Bae is pronounced /beɪ/.
What is the plural of bae?
The plural of bae is baes.

Words near bae in the dictionary

  1. Badwater Basin
  2. badwill
  3. badwrongfun
  4. Bady
  5. Badys
  6. bae
  7. baecation
  8. baecations
  9. baeckeol
  10. baed
  11. Baedeker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bae (page history and authors); BAE (page history and authors); BAe (page history and authors); Bae (page history and authors); bae (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bae (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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