Definition of ME

me

Plural: mes

Noun

  • a state in New England
  • The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.
  • The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

Pron

  • The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
  • As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
  • The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
  • Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
  • The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
  • Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
  • The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
  • As the object of a preposition.
  • As the complement of the copula (be).
  • Used for the pronoun in isolation or in apposition.
  • I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
  • As the subject of a verb.
  • I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
  • As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
  • I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
  • Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.

Det

  • Alternative form of my.

Pronoun

  • The objective case of the pronoun 'I'.

Examples

  • [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
  • After scoring that bingo, everyone was looking at ME with envy.
  • Can you hear me?
  • Come with me.
  • He gave me this.
  • Me and my friends played a game.
  • Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.
  • Who did this? —Me. I did it. (≈ It was me. I did it.)
  • Who said that? -(It was) not me.
  • Who's there? —Me.

Origin / Etymology

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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots me (“me”), North Frisian me (“me”), Saterland Frisian mie (“me”), Dutch me, mij (“me”), Low German mi (“me”), German mir (“me”, dative), Icelandic mér (“me”, dative), Latin mē (“me”), Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”).

Synonyms

Maine, Pine Tree State, I, I#Noun, mine, my, my ass, us

Scrabble Score: 4

me: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
me: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
me: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

me: valid Words With Friends Word