Word.ws English Dictionary

wae

wae is the alternative form of with.

wae is the alternative form of woe.

Meaning of with

Preposition

with

  1. Against.
    • He picked a fight with the class bully.
  2. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
    • He went with his friends.
  3. In addition to; as an accessory to.
    • She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
  4. Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
    • Jim was listening to Bach with his eyes closed.
  5. In support of.
    • We are with you all the way.
  6. In regard to.
    • There are a number of problems with your plan.

See all 16 meanings of with

Meaning of woe

Noun (1)

woe (countable and uncountable, plural woes)

  1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
    • Oh, woe is me!
  2. Calamity, trouble.
    • And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 8:13
  3. A curse; a malediction.
    • Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

Noun (2)

woe (plural woes)

  1. (slang, Baltimore, African-American Vernacular) A close friend; a nigga, homie or bro.

See all 6 meanings of woe

Proper noun capitalized: WAE

WAE

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Wireless Application Environment.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Web Application Extension.

Phrase capitalized: WAE

WAE

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of when actually employed.

Forms of wae

pluralwaes

Words formed from wae

Questions about wae

What is wae the alternative form of?
Wae is the alternative form of with.
What part of speech is wae?
Wae can be a proper noun or a phrase.

Words near wae in the dictionary

  1. Wadsworths
  2. Wadworth
  3. Wadworths
  4. wady
  5. wadys
  6. wae
  7. Waechter
  8. Waechters
  9. waeg
  10. waegs
  11. waegwan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wae (page history and authors); WAE (page history and authors); with (page history and authors); woe (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wae.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wae. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.