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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'e' Resulted in 2 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 2 Definitions E noun  (context, street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA). The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade. 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, ISBN 1859843182, page 25, :In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an in A-level art " a2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell?, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), ISBN 1405105860, page 198, :My results weren"t that great, to be honest. I weren"t right happy with them; I got an in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right. 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, ISBN 1589397681, page 125, :Not really, but perhaps I"d have got an "" in Tech Drawing no matter how much I"d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge. 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, ISBN 1905315007, page 103, :But she didn"t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, "But you can"t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil."       e Etymology: From and lower case letter (term, e) and split of (term, í), (term, ea), (term, eo), and (term, Å), from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters: lower case letter (term, e), from replacement by Latin letter (term, e) of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter (term, á, tr=e). lower case letter (term, í, lang=enm) from replacement by Latin ligature (term, í, lang=la) of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter (term, á, tr=í). lower case digraph (term, ea), from replacement by Latin digraph (term, ea) of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter (term, á, tr=ea). lower case digraph (term, eo, lang=ang) from replacement by Latin digraph (term, eo, lang=enm) of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (term, á, tr=Äo). lower case letter (term, Å, lang=enm) from replacement by Latin ligature (term, Å, lang=la) of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter (term, á, tr=Å).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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