mee

UK/miː//mi/

mee is the obsolete spelling of me.

mee is the obsolete emphatic of me.

Noun (1)

mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees)

(Malaysia, Singapore) Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 7, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy; 1), London: Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 115
(Malaysia, Singapore) With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- curry mee prawn mee soup
- We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork […] Its name […] was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.1935, Alec Dixon, chapter XIII, in Singapore Patrol, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, page 107

Meaning of me

Pronoun

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

(first-person, pronoun, singular) As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
- Can you hear me?
(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
(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
(first-person, pronoun, singular) As the object of a preposition.
- Come with me.
(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.
Synonyms:

I, moi
(first-person, informal, nonstandard, often, pronoun, proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
- Me and my friends played a game.

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Proper noun capitalized: Mee

Mee (countable and uncountable, plural Mees)

A surname.
A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.

Noun (2) capitalized: MEE

MEE (plural MEEs)

(abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of multiple effect evaporator.

Forms of mee

Noun
plural	mees
plural	MEEs
Proper noun
plural	Mees

Origin of mee

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

* As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadhach (“honorable”). Compare Meehan, McNamee. * As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus. * (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

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Questions about mee

What does mee mean?: Mee means chinese-style wheat noodles.
What is mee the obsolete spelling of?: Mee is the obsolete spelling of me.
What part of speech is mee?: Mee can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mee?: Mee is pronounced /miː/ (UK).
What is the plural of mee?: The plural of mee is mees.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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