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long e

long e noun: the vowel sound /iː/ in the words "green", "seem", "eve", and "eke". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the "eve" and "eke" examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in meting versus setting).

Noun

long e (plural long e's)

  1. The vowel sound /iː/ in the words "green", "seem", "eve", and "eke". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the "eve" and "eke" examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in meting versus setting).
    Antonyms:
    short e

Antonyms of long e

Forms of long e

plurallong e's

Questions about long e

What does long e mean?
Long e means the vowel sound /iː/ in the words "green", "seem", "eve", and "eke". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the "eve" and "eke" examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in meting versus setting).
What part of speech is long e?
Long e is a noun.
What is the plural of long e?
The plural of long e is long e's.

Words near long e in the dictionary

  1. long drop
  2. long drops
  3. long drum
  4. long drums
  5. Long Duckmanton
  6. long e
  7. Long Eaton
  8. long egg
  9. long eggs
  10. long eighteenth century
  11. long ess

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