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Definition: Nee |
NeeAdjective1. (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman; "Hillary Clinton nee Rodham". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Nee \Nee\, past participle, feminine [French expression, from the Latin expression nata, feminine of natus, past participle of nasci to be born. See Nation.]. (references) |
Crosswords: Nee |
| Non-English Usage: "Nee" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (no, not), Dutch (no, not), Esperanto (negatively), German (nope), Luxembourgish (no), Manx (do, shall do, will). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nee zuster Ja zuster (1966) Kalla khrung nueng... muea chao nee (1994) En Arukil Nee Irundhaal (1991) Nee Siriththaal Dheepaavalli (1990) Engane Nee Marakkum (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | John Nee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait photographs. Golden wedding, Adolphus and Elisabeth Mayer, nee Hill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Nee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.93% of the time. "Nee" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.93% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Unclassified Items | 27.91% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "nee" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nee | Last name | 1,000 | 11,178 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "nee": cock-er-nee. | |
Containing "nee": Ar-see-nee-yo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i lindur (born, congenital, inborn, inbred, innate, native, natural). (various references) | |
Arabic | مولودة, المولودة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | по баща. (various references) | |
Czech | rozená. (various references) | |
Farsi | یعنی (Innuendo, Namely), موسوم به , نامیده شده , تولدیافته , زاده (Fry). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyttönimeltään (born). (various references) | |
French | née. (various references) | |
German | geborene. (various references) | |
Greek | γεννημένοσ (born, nascent), το γένοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | született (born, have a charmed life, true born). (various references) | |
Italian | nata. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nascida, com nome de solteira. (various references) | |
Russian | урожденный (native-born), урожденная. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rođena. (various references) | |
Spanish | de soltera. (various references) | |
Swedish | född (begotten, born, née). (various references) | |
Turkish | kızlık soyadı ile. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уроджена. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nee": need, needed, needer, needers, needful, needfully, needfulness, needfulnesses, needfuls, needier, neediest, needily, neediness, needinesses, needing, needle, needled, needlefish, needlefishes, needlelike, needlepoint, needlepoints, needler, needlers, needles, needless, needlessly, needlessness, needlessnesses, needlewoman, needlewomen, needlework, needleworker, needleworkers, needleworks, needling, needlings, needs, needy, neem, neems, neep, neeps. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nee": alienee, assignee, botonee, botonnee, chutnee, conominee, consignee, designee, detainee, donee, donnee, enshrinee, examinee, gobonee, gratinee, internee, jinnee, knee, kokanee, maharanee, matinee, nominee, optionee, pawnee, ranee, returnee, signee, snickersnee, soignee, townee, trainee, vaccinee. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nee": alienees, assignees, auctioneer, auctioneers, bioengineer, bioengineered, bioengineering, bioengineerings, bioengineers, buccaneer, buccaneered, buccaneering, buccaneerish, buccaneers, cannoneer, cannoneers, carabineer, carabineers, chutnees, conominees, consignees, conventioneer, conventioneers, designees, detainees, domineer, domineered, domineering, domineeringly, domineeringness, domineeringnesses, domineers, donees, donnees, electioneer, electioneered, electioneerer, electioneerers, electioneering, electioneers, engineer, engineered, engineering, engineerings, engineers, enshrinees, examinees, fictioneer, fictioneering, fictioneerings, fictioneers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nee" (pronounced nē") |
| 2 | n ē" | designee, detainee, Guarani, internee, knee, ne, nominee, pawnee, ranee, returnee, trainee. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n" | |
-1 letter: en, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n" | |
+1 letter: been, bene, dene, erne, even, eyen, eyne, gene, keen, knee, need, neem, neep, nene, neve, peen, seen, sene, teen, ween. | |
+2 letters: agene, akene, anele, benes, benne, cense, denes, dense, diene, donee, eaten, emend, enate, ended, ender, endue, enema, enemy, ensue, enter, enure, ernes, evens, event, exine, fence, genes, genet, genie, genre, green, hence, keens, kerne, kneed, kneel, knees, leben, lenes, lense, leone, mense, mesne, needs, needy, neems, neeps, nenes, nerve, neume, never, neves, newel, newer, newie, ngwee, niece, nieve, peens, pence, penes, penne, preen, queen, ranee, renew, rente, scene, seine, semen, sense, sente, seven, sheen, skeen, skene, sneer, teens, teeny, tenet, tenge, tense, terne, treen, tween, undee, veena, venae, venge, venue, weens, weeny, wheen, yente. | |
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