de
preposition
from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin).
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de'prepositiondei (used in Italian names as an elided form ofdei ).
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de-
de-a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide ); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify ), negation (demerit; derange ), descent (degrade; deduce ), reversal (detract ), intensity (decompound ).
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D.E.
D.E.abbreviationDoctor of Engineering.
de
1 American
[duh, duh, de, di]
/ də, də, dɛ, dɪ /
preposition
DE
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American
de'
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American
[duh, de]
/ də, dɛ /
preposition
de-
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American
D.E.
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American
abbreviation
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Doctor of Engineering.
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driver education.
de-
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British
prefix
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removal of or from something specified
deforest
dethrone
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reversal of something
decode
decompose
desegregate
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departure from
decamp
DE
2
British
abbreviation
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(formerly in Britain) Department of Employment
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Delaware
de
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/ də /
de
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abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of de1
From French, Portuguese, Spanish, from Latin dē
Origin of de-4
Middle English < Latin dē-, prefixal use of dē (preposition) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < French < Latin dē- or dis- dis- 1
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Día de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday celebrated every Nov. 1 and 2 that honors the lives of those we have lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
"I think a change is necessary," Igor de Assis Coutinho, a 42-year-old cook in Sao Paulo, told AFP.
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The case against Milei and his sister Karina Milei was dismissed by federal judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi at the request of prosecutors, court records show.
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He currently owns French soccer club Olympique de Marseille.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Planting his lance on Don Quixote's helmet, the victor said, "You are beaten, Sir Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha, and you'll die if you do not confess what we agreed upon."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Deere DE -0.52%decrease; down pointing triangle is making a bet that artificial intelligence can help farmers make better decisions—and eventually revive sliding sales of farm equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Deere DE 0.43%increase; green up pointing triangle posted higher fiscal second-quarter sales as growth in the company’s construction equipment business helped to offset weakness in its production agriculture segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Each school in Northern Ireland is required by the DE to teach RSE.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
The DE said it continues to support children through free school meals to low-income families and will continue to work with other government departments and agencies to look at ways to tackle holiday hunger.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
When street protests turned deadly, DE LA RUA was forced to resign in December 2001.
From The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
On Friday, an anonymous collector who goes by Cozomo de’ Medici announced on X that he’d bought two of the dogs, Picasso and Warhol, and former Sotheby’s chief executive Tad Smith bought an “Elon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Florence's Uffizi Gallery said a tourist fell backwards while trying to "make a meme in front" of a portrait of Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
“I think I used to overdo the cries in my voice,” she said, before replicating her old style: “‘Lo de lo de lo de’ — it’s too much.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
Catherine de’ Medici, the 16th century ruler of France, did the unthinkable for her time: She rose to power in a man’s world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
There is no direct evidence regarding de’ Barbari’s date of birth, but he was described as old and ill in 1512; his earliest securely dated work is 1500.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Mr. Tisci said he was de- and reconstructing the pillars of the house: trenches, car coats and checks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
While still used in food, now it is mainly mined as a chemical agent, water softener, or a de- icer for roads.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
“It was a very, very de- pressing time.”
From MSNBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
“You may want to be buying the stories when they are de- rated and the hopes and dreams have turned to disappointment,” she said.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 3, 2011
Less de- fensibly, the nuns distrusted intellectual challenges to authority.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Mehta, 42, previously worked at the hedge fund D.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Shares fell at the start of the month after the D.E.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
In activist investor news: Air Products named two new directors as it faces pressure from Mantle Ridge and D.E.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
The digital payments company agreed to shareholder D.E.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
The property of cohesion of small conductive bodies when influenced by Hertzian waves was first noticed in 1874 by Professor D.E.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
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