Ve
name, noun, pron ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
- 1 Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they. epicene, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person
"And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready)."
- 2 Pronunciation spelling of we. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?"
- 1 Initialism of Victory in Europe; used especially in the term VE Day. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Antonyms
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More examples"I'm surprised that you're so naïve."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.