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ME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ME mean? 

ME (noun)
  The noun ME has 1 sense:

1. a state in New Englandplay

  Familiarity information: ME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "ME"):

Acadia National Park (a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation; includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast)

Augusta; capital of Maine (the capital of the state of Maine)

Bangor (a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River)

Brunswick (a university town in southwestern Maine)

Lewiston (a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland)

Orono (a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor)

Portland (largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state)

Penobscot; Penobscot River (a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay)

Saint John; Saint John River; St. John; St. John River (a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy)

Holonyms ("ME" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)


 Context examples 


Your doctor hisself said one glass wouldn't hurt me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“As you love me, Buck. As you love me,” was what he whispered.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“And now,” said the other, “how did you know me?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Not so much as I could wish. But Mr. Copperfield was teaching me—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has frequently conversed with me on mine, which I have communicated to him without disguise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Can't put this deal through too quick for me, you—you little worm!"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seemed to brace himself up and lean backward against the air as he stared at me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The word puts me on the alert.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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