"Re" meaning in English

See Re in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ɹeɪ/
Rhymes: -eɪ Etymology: Meaning borrowed from Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), with the form of the word borrowed from Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|egy|rꜥ|<hiero>r:a-ra</hiero>|sun, Ra|tr=<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">rꜥ</i>}} Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), {{bor|en|cop|ⲣⲏ||sun}} Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”) Head templates: {{head|en|proper noun}} Re
  1. (Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra Tags: Egyptian, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Ra Categories (topical): Egyptian deities
    Sense id: en-Re-en-name-XysJkQlY Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 40 40 16 3 Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

IPA: /ɹeɪ/
Rhymes: -eɪ Etymology: Clipping of reinsurance. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|reinsurance}} Clipping of reinsurance Head templates: {{en-prop}} Re
  1. (in company names) Reinsurance.
    Sense id: en-Re-en-name-vjVRKmJP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 54 30 5 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 40 40 16 3 Disambiguation of English links with redundant alt parameters: 29 41 27 3 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 27 44 26 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Proper name

IPA: /ɹeɪ/
Rhymes: -eɪ Head templates: {{en-prop}} Re
  1. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway Categories (place): Municipalities of Norway, Places in Norway, Places in Vestfold, Norway
    Sense id: en-Re-en-name-THtGA0VX Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 40 40 16 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Symbol

IPA: /ɹeɪ/ Forms: Rs [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪ Head templates: {{head|en|symbol|pl|Rs}} Re (pl Rs)
  1. rupee
    Sense id: en-Re-en-symbol-bdOCAK7N Categories (other): English symbols
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "egy",
        "3": "rꜥ",
        "4": "<hiero>r:a-ra</hiero>",
        "5": "sun, Ra",
        "tr": "<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"egy\">rꜥ</i>"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cop",
        "3": "ⲣⲏ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sun"
      },
      "expansion": "Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Meaning borrowed from Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), with the form of the word borrowed from Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proper noun"
      },
      "expansion": "Re",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Ra"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Egyptian deities",
          "orig": "en:Egyptian deities",
          "parents": [
            "Egyptian mythology",
            "Gods",
            "Ancient Egypt",
            "Mythology",
            "Religion",
            "Ancient Africa",
            "Ancient Near East",
            "History of Egypt",
            "Culture",
            "Ancient history",
            "History of Africa",
            "Ancient Asia",
            "Egypt",
            "History of Asia",
            "Society",
            "History",
            "Africa",
            "Countries",
            "Countries in Africa",
            "Asia",
            "All topics",
            "Earth",
            "Polities",
            "Places",
            "Eurasia",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 40 16 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Ra"
      ],
      "id": "en-Re-en-name-XysJkQlY",
      "links": [
        [
          "Egyptian",
          "Egyptian"
        ],
        [
          "mythology",
          "mythology"
        ],
        [
          "Ra",
          "Ra#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "mysticism",
        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Rs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "symbol",
        "3": "pl",
        "4": "Rs"
      },
      "expansion": "Re (pl Rs)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "symbol",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English symbols",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rupee"
      ],
      "id": "en-Re-en-symbol-bdOCAK7N",
      "links": [
        [
          "rupee",
          "rupee"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "reinsurance"
      },
      "expansion": "Clipping of reinsurance",
      "name": "clipping"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of reinsurance.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Re",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 54 30 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 40 16 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 41 27 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 44 26 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Swiss Re",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Reinsurance."
      ],
      "id": "en-Re-en-name-vjVRKmJP",
      "links": [
        [
          "Reinsurance",
          "reinsurance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in company names) Reinsurance."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in company names"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 4,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Re",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Municipalities of Norway",
          "orig": "en:Municipalities of Norway",
          "parents": [
            "Municipalities",
            "Places",
            "Political divisions",
            "Names",
            "Polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Norway",
          "orig": "en:Places in Norway",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Vestfold, Norway",
          "orig": "en:Places in Vestfold, Norway",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 40 16 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A municipality of Vestfold, Norway"
      ],
      "id": "en-Re-en-name-THtGA0VX",
      "links": [
        [
          "municipality",
          "municipality"
        ],
        [
          "Vestfold",
          "Vestfold#English"
        ],
        [
          "Norway",
          "Norway#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English links with redundant alt parameters",
    "English links with redundant wikilinks",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Coptic",
    "English terms borrowed from Egyptian",
    "English terms derived from Coptic",
    "English terms derived from Egyptian",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "egy",
        "3": "rꜥ",
        "4": "<hiero>r:a-ra</hiero>",
        "5": "sun, Ra",
        "tr": "<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"egy\">rꜥ</i>"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cop",
        "3": "ⲣⲏ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sun"
      },
      "expansion": "Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Meaning borrowed from Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), with the form of the word borrowed from Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proper noun"
      },
      "expansion": "Re",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Ra"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "en:Egyptian deities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Ra"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Egyptian",
          "Egyptian"
        ],
        [
          "mythology",
          "mythology"
        ],
        [
          "Ra",
          "Ra#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "mysticism",
        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English links with redundant alt parameters",
    "English links with redundant wikilinks",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English symbols",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Rs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "symbol",
        "3": "pl",
        "4": "Rs"
      },
      "expansion": "Re (pl Rs)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "symbol",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "rupee"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rupee",
          "rupee"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English clippings",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English links with redundant alt parameters",
    "English links with redundant wikilinks",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "reinsurance"
      },
      "expansion": "Clipping of reinsurance",
      "name": "clipping"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of reinsurance.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Re",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Swiss Re",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Reinsurance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Reinsurance",
          "reinsurance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in company names) Reinsurance."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in company names"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English links with redundant alt parameters",
    "English links with redundant wikilinks",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 4,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Re",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Municipalities of Norway",
        "en:Places in Norway",
        "en:Places in Vestfold, Norway"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A municipality of Vestfold, Norway"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "municipality",
          "municipality"
        ],
        [
          "Vestfold",
          "Vestfold#English"
        ],
        [
          "Norway",
          "Norway#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rae"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ray"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Re, Norway"
  ],
  "word": "Re"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Re meaning in English (5.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.