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@ 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.
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^enADP
~enSYM
==enCCONJ
enPUNCT
-'enPART
!enSYM
?enNOUN
?enADJ
·enSYM
'enPART
'enSYM
enSYM
‘ ’enPUNCT
enPUNCT
“ ”enPUNCT
@ 3enCCONJ
@ 1enVERB
@ 1enNOUN
@ 1enADP
@ 2enSYM
@ 3enSYM
@$$enNOUN
$$$enNOUN
*enSYM
&enCCONJ
%enX
+enCCONJ
++enX
ɢenSYM
ɤenSYM
ɴenSYM
ɶenSYM
ʀenSYM
ʉenSYM
ʏenSYM
ʜenSYM
ʹenSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enPUNCT
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enNOUN
◌̆enSYM

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