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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de'
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[duh, de]
/ də, dɛ /
preposition
de-
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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
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abbreviation
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(formerly in Britain) Department of Employment
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Delaware
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/ də /
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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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Emery gave the Senegal striker his debut at Estadio de la Ceramica and believes he can rely on him to fill the void Watkins has left.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“What I am doing now is preparing the ground de facto for this event,” he said in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Commuting all death sentences to life in prison “would be the coup de grâce,” Farrell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
After communism’s fall, people all over Albania received titles to the property where they lived, once the land was not all de facto owned by the state.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
‘Our visitors are called Mr and Mrs Van de Berg, and you are going to stay with them for a little while,’ Papa said.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Deere DE -2.18%decrease; red down pointing triangle has spent years in the crosshairs of farmers who have demanded easier ways to fix their own equipment or get it repaired by an independent mechanic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Nebraska farmer Guy Mills figures he has spent more than half a million dollars over the past eight years on repairs to his Deere DE 1.07%increase; green up pointing triangle tractors and harvesters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Each school in Northern Ireland is required by the DE to teach RSE.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
The winners include McDonald’s, Exxon Mobil XOM -2.44%decrease; red down pointing triangle and tractor maker Deere DE 0.07%increase; green up pointing triangle .
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Full text Text close-up 107 108 DE MARNEF.
From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. (William) Roberts
He was a favorite of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and his paintings have a superficial resemblance both to those of his teacher, Botticelli, and those of his father, Fra Filippo Lippi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
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
I doubt both this and the traditional attribution to Jacopo de’ Barbari.
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
Financial firms boosted salaries starting in 2009 to de- emphasize bonuses, which lawmakers said had encouraged outsized risks that fueled the financial crisis.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 30, 2012
Less de- fensibly, the nuns distrusted intellectual challenges to authority.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The two met while working at investment firm D.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Shares fell at the start of the month after the D.E.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Other top performers last year include Citadel, D.E.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
The digital payments company agreed to shareholder D.E.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
He then began the study of the piano as a recreation, his teacher being D.E.
From Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson
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