Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.
- pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb.
- pronoun Used as the object of a preposition.
- pronoun Informal Used as a predicate nominative.
- pronoun Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- One; they: used indefinitely.
- noun A contraction of Maine.
- noun An abbreviation of
Master of Elementary Didactics . - noun An abbreviation of
Member of Executive Council . - noun An abbreviation of
Master (or Mistress) of English Literature. - noun An abbreviation of
mean effective pressure . - A pronoun of the first person, used only in the oblique cases (accusative and dative, classed together as objective), and supplying these cases of the pronoun I.
- The dative occurs— To express the indirect object: as, give me a drink; bring me that book.
- To express the indirect object in mere reference or mention—that is, to bring into the predicate, as an apparent indirect object, the actual subject (the ethical dative): a form of expression adding a certain life or vivacity to colloquial speech, and therefore a favorite use in Shakspere and other Elizabethan dramatists.
- Before the impersonal verbs think and seem, where me is conventionally written with the verb as one word, as me-thinks (preterit methought), meseems (preterit meseemed).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun obsolete One. See
men , pron. - The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun As the
direct object of a verb. - pronoun obsolete
Myself ; as areflexive direct object of a verb. - pronoun As the object of a preposition.
- pronoun As the indirect object of a verb.
- pronoun US, colloquial
Myself ; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; theethical dative . - pronoun colloquial As the
complement of thecopula (“be ” or “is ”). - pronoun Australia, UK, New Zealand
My ; preceding a noun, marking ownership. - pronoun colloquial As the subject of a verb.
- pronoun nonstandard As the subject of a verb.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state in New England
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now you will hardly believe me when I tell you that at that very instant Topp forced me back into my chair, while Jack Hobson pinioned my arms from behind, and the waiter had the unblushing effrontery to stamp and rave at me like a maniac, demanding satisfaction or compensation at my hands for the unprovoked assault committed upon him by _me, coram populo_! — by _me_, who, I beg to assure you, am the most peaceable man living, and am actually famed for the mildness of my disposition and the sweetness and suavity of my temper.
A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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For one thing, "acquaintance" wasn't how I'd have described that German ruffian who'd dragged me into his diabolical Strackenz plot and tried to murder me* (* See Royal Flash.), and how did she
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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He dwelled on the getting housing deals from Chicago's political/crime boss when in office ... now he has successfully sucked the media into the * woe is me you are so hard on me* mess.
The Reporter Who Launched The "Monster" Story Speaks... 2009
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'Stand by me' - the Abu Ghraib bad apples yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Stand by me\' - the Abu Ghraib bad apples '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: There are so many despicable, dark corners of the tawdry Bush presidency, none less tawdry than the torture theater that has found new release life and is playing across the land.
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I said I might want someone to know that about *me* before they interviewed me.
More Annals of the Great Depression: Whither The Conference Interview? Tenured Radical 2009
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They dwelled on the vast right wing conspiracy when in office ... now they've successfully sucked the media into the * woe is me you are so hard on me* mess.
The Reporter Who Launched The "Monster" Story Speaks... 2009
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This reminds me of the time that Beatlefest and a Chicago area comic-con were going on in the same hotel several years ago – I had on a Beatles t-shirt and a few buttons (nothing out of the ordinary at Beatlefest) – and a woman dressed head-to-toe in cornflower-blue-and-gold lame (with coordinated face makeup) gave *me* a “WTF” look.
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DEMI i rally wanna se u in actuall because i am the greatest fan of yours please mail me on imrak399@yahoo.com i have a problem to be solved i hope u understand and will mail me*** i will keep waiting for your mail*****luv ya
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What, you want to me *me* tier the display of *your* loss-leader by setting out your freebie on my land ?
Dear M Linden - Please help content creators protect our Intellectual Property (and save LL a lot of time and trouble, too) Bettina Tizzy 2008
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It doesn't exactly make me comfortable that the New York Observer is making an implicit analogy between the Clintons' marriage and my own, but the stunt of having my husband and I me* both review Carl Bernstein's Hillary book at least gave me my first ever MSM cover story.
uselessness commented on the word me
Pirate for my.
February 1, 2007
Telofy commented on the word me
Who pronounces me /mei/?
If anyone has a clue, please post. I'm really curious.
(I just heard it in a song but that was just so it rhymes with away...)
January 8, 2009
jennarenn commented on the word me
Poor kids spell this word as me or mee. Rich kids spell this word as mii. ARGH!!!
February 6, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word me
The guy who sends me lots of useful emails on how to make easy money and enlarge my p€ni$.
September 1, 2009