Ne

//nə// adj, adv, conj, name, noun

adj, adv, conj, name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of northeast, a cardinal point of the compass. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  2. 2
    the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees wordnet
  3. 3
    Initialism of norepinephrine. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  4. 4
    a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts wordnet
  5. 5
    Initialism of northern epilepsy syndrome abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Initialism of northeastern. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
  2. 2
    Initialism of not evaluated. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    Not. not-comparable

    "For she ne dare doo, but to commande."

  2. 2
    "Isn't that so?" (used in representations of Maori English). New-Zealand, not-comparable

    "Then, he had only chuckled again and said, “Well, we got him on the way, ne?”"

Conjunction
  1. 1
    Nor. obsolete

    "That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Nebraska: a state of the United States. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    Initialism of New English. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of New England: a geographic region of the United States. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

All synonyms
atomic number 10nebneb.nebraskaneonneon

Example

More examples

"In the presence of another negative word, the word "ne" is omitted."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

Etymology 2

From Māori nē.

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