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eie

eie is the obsolete spelling of eye.

Meaning of eye

Noun

eye (plural eyes or (archaic or dialectal) eyen)

  1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
    • Near-synonym: eyeball
    Synonyms:
    eyeball
  2. The visual sense.
    • The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
  3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
    • Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
  4. Attention, notice.
    • That dress caught her eye.
  5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
    • He has an eye for talent.
    Synonyms:
    perceptiveness
  6. (usually) A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
    • She was giving him the eye at the bar.

See all 43 meanings of eye

Forms of eie

pluraleies

Questions about eie

What is eie the obsolete spelling of?
Eie is the obsolete spelling of eye.

Words near eie in the dictionary

  1. Eidsvoll
  2. eidut
  3. eidôla
  4. eidôlon
  5. eidôlons
  6. eie
  7. eies
  8. Eifel
  9. Eifelian
  10. eifelite
  11. Eifert

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eie (page history and authors); eye (page history and authors). 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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