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@ en · ADP · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. At a rate of (so much each).
    • @ 80 km/h
    • 15 items @ $10
  2. (informal) At (any sense).
    • @ 20°C
    • "you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me. 2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
    • Text message: “im @ school.”

Translations (7)

nb à (at a rate of) · hu à (at a rate of) · da à (at a rate of) · ca a (at a rate of) · de à (at a rate of) · sv à (at a rate of) · nl à (at a rate of)

Source: en.wiktionary, “@” (prep), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

@ en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Internet) The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.
    • What your @?

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
at alternative lexicographic
@s Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

at sign · @ party · @mention

Source: en.wiktionary, “@” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

@ en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Internet, transitive) To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
    • She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people. 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:
    • He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
    • Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
@ing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
@ed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
@ed Tense=Past lexicographic
@s Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “@” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

@ en · SYM · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Meanings

  1. Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
    • Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
  2. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
    • Kosov@; Pin@y

Relateds

x

Source: en.wiktionary, “@” (symbol), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

@ en · CCONJ · etymology 3

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).

Meanings

  1. (Malaysia, informal) or
    • Apples @ oranges
Source: en.wiktionary, “@” (conj), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

@ en · SYM · etymology 3

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).

Meanings

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore) Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
    • Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan