C.B.E.

American  

abbreviation

1. Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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CBE British  

abbreviation

1. Commander of the (Order of the) British Empire

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Example Sentences

But he has met her son, when Morgan was awarded a C.B.E., this year, for services to drama.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016

In 2003, J. G. Ballard said he did not want a C.B.E. because the whole thing was a “preposterous charade.”

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012

The artist Lucian Freud did not want a C.B.E. in 1977.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012

Colonel Harry M. Llewellyn, C.B.E., looks like Alec Guinness, talks like a Noel Coward character and rides a horse as well as Sir Gordon Richards, England's beknighted jockey.

From Time Magazine Archive

C.B.E., who was its commandant from its inception to the end of the war.

From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor