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me

UK/miː//mi/

me pronoun: as the object (direct or indirect) of a verb. Also the alternative form of my.

Pronoun (1)

me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)

  1. (first-person, pronoun, singular) As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
    • Can you hear me?
    • He gave me this.
  2. (archaic, first-person, pronoun, proscribed, singular) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
    • And I awoke, and found me here.1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci
  3. (colloquial, first-person, pronoun, proscribed, singular) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
    • When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.1993 April, Harper's Magazine
  4. (first-person, pronoun, singular) As the object of a preposition.
    • Come with me.
  5. (first-person, pronoun, singular) Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
    • Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.
    • Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)
    Synonyms:
    I, moi
  6. (first-person, informal, nonstandard, often, pronoun, proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
    • Me and my friends played a game.
    • [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
  7. (first-person, nonstandard, pronoun, proscribed, singular) As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
    • One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of "Bel (not) me want to go.1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, volume II
    • Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.1899 July 20, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children’s Department”, in A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number...
  8. (first-person, nonstandard, pronoun, proscribed, singular) Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
    • “I should stick to Tarzan,” he [Johnny Weissmuller] explains. “You see, I’m no actor. Well, I didn’t have to act in ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’—just said, ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane.’ I'll never be able to act.”1932 June, Katherine Albert, “Hey! Hey! Here Comes Johnny”, in James R. Quirk, editor, Photoplay, volume XLII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Photoplay Publishing Company, page 119, column 2
    • May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.”1954 February 3, Mrs. John F. Underhill, “The Last Leaf” (Chapter Three: Bear Tracks), in Lawrence Maxwell, editor, Junior Guide, volume 2, number 5, Washington, D.C., page 7, column 2

Noun (1)

me (plural mes)

  1. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.
    • “Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.”...1871, George MacDonald, “[At the Back of the North Wind] Out in the Storm”, in Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R[ichard] Stockton, Julian Hawthorne, editors, Masterpieces of the World’s Literature...
    • The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the...1948 January, Rog Phillips [pseudonym; Roger Phillip Graham], “Hate”, in Amazing Stories, volume 22, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, page 69, column 2
    Synonyms:
    I

Noun (2)

me

  1. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

Pronoun (2)

me (reflexive me's self, possessive adjective me's, plural mes)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete) Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: ME

ME

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Middle English.
  4. Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).
  6. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of Mass Effect.
    • In ME technophobia (or perhaps more accurately, "cyborg-phobia") reaches its zenith with the design of the Reapers' techno-zombies, as they are mutated, abject monstrosities that exist to be fought and killed by the player. Humans who are infected by the Reapers mutate into "Husks," which look like...2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science...

Symbol capitalized: ME

M_E

  1. Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.
  2. (sum of parts) The mass of the Earth specifically.

Noun (3) capitalized: ME

ME (countable and uncountable, plural MEs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of master of engineering.
    Synonyms:
    M. Eng., M.Eng., M.Eng, MEng, MASc, M.A.Sc., M. A. Sc.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of managing editor.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of medical examiner.
    • The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 52
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of marriage encounter.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of main engine.

Noun (4) capitalized: Me

Me (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of methyl.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Me

Me

  1. Windows Me (Millennium Edition).
    Synonyms:
    WinMe

Pronoun (3) capitalized: Me

Me

  1. Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Also used as

me is also the alternative form of my.

me meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

me in Hindi

direct object of a verb
मुझ mujh, मैं ma͠i, मुझे mujhe

me in Marathi

direct object of a verb
मला malā

me in Urdu

direct object of a verb
مجھ mujh

me in Bengali

direct object of a verb
আমাকে amake
More languagesFewer languages
me in Telugu
నన్ను nannu
me in Sinhala
මා mā
me in Assamese
মোক mük
me in Nepali
मलाई malāī
me in Arabic
ـنِي -nī, ـنِيَ -niya, إِيَّايَ ʔiyyāya, ـِي -ī
me in Indonesian
saya
me in Thai
ผม pǒm, ดิฉัน dì-chǎn, ฉัน chǎn
me in Vietnamese
cho mình
me in Myanmar
ကျွန်တော် kywantau, ကျွန်မ kywanma., ငါ nga, ကျုပ် kyup

Examples of me in a sentence

  • Who said that? —(It was) not me.
  • Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.
  • Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, haſt holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17, signature Fff, verso, column 2:
  • She said, “Me and her went to the movies on Saturday night." I couldn’t contain it.2025 June 14, Anna Holmes, “Wait, People Are Bringing Their Whole Family to Job Interviews?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  • It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me?1871, George MacDonald, “[At the Back of the North Wind] Out in the Storm”, in Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R[ichard] Stockton, Julian...
  • So which me do you actually love ?” / “All of them.” / “You’re being slippery.” Her lips curled slyly.1990, Bei Dao [pseudonym; Zhao Zhenkai], translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette Ternent Cooke, Waves, New York, N.Y.: New Directions...

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Synonyms of me

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Forms of me

Noun
pluralmes
pluralMEs
Pronoun
reflexiveme's self
adjective possessiveme's
pluralmes

Plural of me: mes

Origin of me

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”.

A spelling representing the pronunciation (/miː/), which is the older pronunciation (see Middle English mi (“my”); Middle English me (“me”) was pronounced /meː/, similar to modern May); the Great Vowel Shift in the Middle Ages changed /iː/ to /aɪ/, but some dialects retained or reinnovated /iː/ in this word.

From mi (“third note of a major scale”) + -e (“flat”), from Glover's solmization, Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Words formed from me

Phrases with me

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Words that rhyme with me

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Questions about me

What does me mean?
Me means as the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
What is me in Hindi?
Me in Hindi is मुझ (mujh), मैं (ma͠i), मुझे (mujhe). See Me meaning in Hindi.
How do you use me in a sentence?
Who said that? —(It was) not me.
What part of speech is me?
Me can be a pronoun, a noun, a proper noun or a symbol.
How do you pronounce me?
Me is pronounced /miː/ (UK).

Words near me in the dictionary

  1. MDV
  2. MDVP
  3. MDVs
  4. MDX
  5. MDZS
  6. me
  7. me and mine
  8. me and thee
  9. me day
  10. me days
  11. me daza

Source and license

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