Bae
name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The ship prefix for ships of the navy of Ecuador. initialism, uncountable
- 2 Darling (term of endearment). slang
"And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area."
- 3 Asian pear.
- 1 To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay. intransitive
"He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear."
- 1 Initialism of British Aerospace. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of BAe (“British Aerospace”). alt-of
- 3 A surname from Korean.
Example
More examples"And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area."
Etymology
* (Ecuadoran Navy): Spanish BAE
Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from "before anyone else", a possible backronym.
From Korean 배 (bae).
From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.
Borrowed from Korean 배 (bae).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.