Mee

//miː// name, noun, pron

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Chinese-style wheat noodles. Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable

    "He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires."

  2. 2
    With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles. Malaysia, Singapore, countable, uncountable

    "curry mee    prawn mee soup"

Pronoun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of me. alt-of, obsolete, personal, pronoun

    "Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]"

  2. 2
    obsolete emphatic of me alt-of, emphatic, obsolete, personal, pronoun

    "Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).

Etymology 3

* 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 miadh (“honor”). 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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