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# ee

«ee» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **eee; the sound "ee" as in "see"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

eee; the sound "ee" as in "see"

### part of speech

interjection

### meaning for a pupil

A squeal or cry, or the vowel sound "ee" in a pronunciation guide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ee/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "ee" is a Northern English cry of surprise. In these sentences it is a squeal from an animal or a sound written to show pronunciation.

### examples

- But he wants my bacon! gree-ee-ee!" (The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ee/#x1)
- AEgisthus (ee-jiss'-thus, th as in both), 305. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ee/#x2)
- Thus AEneas may be pronounced A-na'-ahss; Aides ah-ee'-daze. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ee/#x3)

### primary record

ee

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 45 (Torah 0, tales 45, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [děng yíxià («DUNG ee-SHYAH») means wait a moment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/12/)
- [yìbǎi fēn («ee-BYE FUN») means a hundred marks, full marks; fēn also means minute and penny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/14/)
- [«ea» has two common sounds: /ee/ in «eat» and /e/ in «head».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/18/)
- [«i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.