Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- pro. Used as the direct object of a verb: He assisted me.
- pro. Used as the indirect object of a verb: They offered me a ride.
- pro. Used as the object of a preposition: This letter is addressed to me.
- pro. Informal Used as a predicate nominative: It's me. See Usage Notes at be, but, I1.
- pro. Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: I bought me a new car.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A pronoun of the first person, used only in the oblique cases (accusative and dative, classed together as objective), and supplying these cases of the pronoun I.
- The dative occurs— To express the indirect object: as, give me a drink; bring me that book.
- To express the indirect object in mere reference or mention—that is, to bring into the predicate, as an apparent indirect object, the actual subject (the ethical dative): a form of expression adding a certain life or vivacity to colloquial speech, and therefore a favorite use in Shakspere and other Elizabethan dramatists.
- Before the impersonal verbs think and seem, where me is conventionally written with the verb as one word, as me-thinks (preterit methought), meseems (preterit meseemed).
- One; they: used indefinitely.
- n. A contraction of Maine.
- n. An abbreviation of Member of Executive Council.
- n. An abbreviation of Master of Elementary Didactics.
- n. An abbreviation of Master (or Mistress) of English Literature.
- n. An abbreviation of mean effective pressure.
Wiktionary
- pro. As the direct object of a verb.
- pro. obsolete Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
- pro. As the object of a preposition.
- pro. As the indirect object of a verb.
- pro. US, colloquial Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
- pro. colloquial As the complement of the copula (“be” or “is”).
- pro. Australia, UK, New Zealand My; preceding a noun, marking ownership.
- pro. colloquial As the subject of a verb.
- pro. nonstandard As the subject of a verb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- pro. obsolete One. See men, pron.
- The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state in New England
Etymologies
- From Middle English me, from Old English mē ("me", originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me ("me"), North Frisian me ("me"), Dutch me, mij ("me"), German mir ("me", dative), Icelandic mér ("me", dative), Latin mē ("me"), Ancient Greek μέ (me), ἐμέ (emé, "me"), Sanskrit (mā), (mām, "me"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English mē. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Now you will hardly believe me when I tell you that at that very instant Topp forced me back into my chair, while Jack Hobson pinioned my arms from behind, and the waiter had the unblushing effrontery to stamp and rave at me like a maniac, demanding satisfaction or compensation at my hands for the unprovoked assault committed upon him by _me, coram populo_! — by _me_, who, I beg to assure you, am the most peaceable man living, and am actually famed for the mildness of my disposition and the sweetness and suavity of my temper.”
“For one thing, "acquaintance" wasn't how I'd have described that German ruffian who'd dragged me into his diabolical Strackenz plot and tried to murder me* (* See Royal Flash.), and how did she”
“They dwelled on the vast right wing conspiracy when in office ... now they've successfully sucked the media into the * woe is me you are so hard on me* mess.”
“He dwelled on the getting housing deals from Chicago's political/crime boss when in office ... now he has successfully sucked the media into the * woe is me you are so hard on me* mess.”
“Stand by me' - the Abu Ghraib bad apples yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Stand by me\' - the Abu Ghraib bad apples '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: There are so many despicable, dark corners of the tawdry Bush presidency, none less tawdry than the torture theater that has found new release life and is playing across the land.”
“I said I might want someone to know that about *me* before they interviewed me.”
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“What, you want to me *me* tier the display of *your* loss-leader by setting out your freebie on my land ?”
“This reminds me of the time that Beatlefest and a Chicago area comic-con were going on in the same hotel several years ago – I had on a Beatles t-shirt and a few buttons (nothing out of the ordinary at Beatlefest) – and a woman dressed head-to-toe in cornflower-blue-and-gold lame (with coordinated face makeup) gave *me* a “WTF” look.”
“DEMI i rally wanna se u in actuall because i am the greatest fan of yours please mail me on imrak399@yahoo.com i have a problem to be solved i hope u understand and will mail me*** i will keep waiting for your mail*****luv ya”
“It doesn't exactly make me comfortable that the New York Observer is making an implicit analogy between the Clintons' marriage and my own, but the stunt of having my husband and I me* both review Carl Bernstein's Hillary book at least gave me my first ever MSM cover story.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘me’.
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Ecce Romani
When in Rome...
salve, ecce, omnis, puella, puer, cannis, equis, domus, quae, postquam, vestemque, suam and 106 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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Please see attached
things seen. got the idea from the list Stuffie: Just Do It!
red, stars, dead people, the sights, a man about a dog, how it goes, how it went, double, it coming, you, the error of your..., no evil and 47 more...
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recycle
recycling words for ma citz crs wrk
recycle, world, future, carbon footprint, think, deforestation, global warming, dream, freedom, stop!, you, me and 6 more...
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core words
my, I, mine, your, his, hers, him, her, their, theirs, our, ours and 34 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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edwardvielmetti's Words
wordhord, wordhoard, wordy, wordie, wiki, toriokyo, superpatron, vacuum, crazy, crazybusy, a2b3, 48104 and 220 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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loinfruit's Words
buddy, hungry, hug, want, you, i, mommy, school, ballet, sign, sign language, language and 170 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for me.
Prolagus The guy who sends me lots of useful emails on how to make easy money and enlarge my p€ni$. Sep 1, 2009
jennarenn Poor kids spell this word as me or mee. Rich kids spell this word as mii. ARGH!!! Feb 6, 2009
Telofy Who pronounces me /mei/?
If anyone has a clue, please post. I'm really curious.
(I just heard it in a song but that was just so it rhymes with away...) Jan 7, 2009
uselessness Pirate for my. Feb 1, 2007