ea
/ˈiː(ə)/
ea noun: a river or watercourse. Also the alternative form of ea..
Noun (1)
ea (plural eas)
- A river or watercourse.
- And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song...1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English
Noun (2) capitalized: EA
EA (countable and uncountable, plural EAs)
- Initialism of executive assistant.
- Initialism of estate agent.
- Initialism of enrolled agent.
- Initialism of educational assistant.
- Initialism of ethyl acetate.
- For copolymers of ethylene, the other comonomer can be an alkene such as propene, butene, hexene or octene, or a compound having a polar functional group such as vinyl acetate (VA), acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acetate (EA), methyl acrylate (MA) or vinyl alcohol (VOH).2006, Gordon L. Robertson, “Structure and Related Properties of Plastic Polymers”, in Food Packaging: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 25
- Initialism of environmental assessment.
- After the EA is issued, a public hearing and associated public comment period will be held to again solicit public input and to create an administrative record.2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 23
- Initialism of enterprise architecture.
- Initialism of evolutionary algorithm.
- Initialism of effective altruism.
- […] Christine Emba’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “The trouble with ‘longtermism,’ ” countered this philosophy’s occasional fanaticism with glib reductiveness. Moreover, she tarred with the same brush the spirit of the entire effective altruism (EA) movement — the giveaway at the start is that EA is derided for...2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 May 2025
- This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires.2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022
- Initialism of effective altruist.
- In November, 2022, when ChatGPT was released, [Sam] Bankman-Fried, the richest and most famous effective altruist, was unmasked as a generational talent at white-collar crime. Many E.A.s now disavow the label: I interviewed people who had attended E.A. conferences, lived in E.A. group houses, and...2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 50
Proper noun (1) capitalized: EA
EA
- Initialism of Environment Agency.
- Initialism of Eid al-Adha.
- Initialism of East Africa.
- Initialism of Electronic Arts.
- Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business
Noun (3) capitalized: Ea
Ea (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of elastane
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ea
Ea
- The name of Enki in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
- The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254
Also used as
ea is also the alternative form of ea..
ea meaning in Kannada
Forms of ea
| plural | eas |
|---|---|
| plural | EAs |
Origin of ea
From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Compare English aqua. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).
Abbreviation.
Words formed from ea
Words that rhyme with ea
Questions about ea
- What does ea mean?
- Ea means a river or watercourse.
- What is ea in Kannada?
- Ea in Kannada is ಇಎ. See Ea meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is ea?
- Ea can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ea?
- Ea is pronounced /ˈiː(ə)/.
- What is the plural of ea?
- The plural of ea is eas.
Words near ea in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ea (page history and authors); EA (page history and authors); Ea (page history and authors); ea (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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