Meaning

The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc)..

Definitions by Sense

1. The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
2. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
3. (nonstandard or proscribed) I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
4. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.
5. (UK regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my.
6. (music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.
7. (obsolete, Early Modern) Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.

Example Sentences

Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.

Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)

Who said that? —(It was) not me.

It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.

“Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes. That’s the very point—You can’t be knowing the thing you don’t know, can you?” “No.” “Which me do you know?” “The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,” answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. […] “Do you know the other me as well?” “No. I can’t. I shouldn’t like to.” “There it is. You don’t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?” “Yes.” “And you are sure there can’t be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the me you don’t know must be the same as the me you do know—else there would be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the other me you don’t know must be as kind as the me you do know?”

The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?

“In these last few days I keep feeling that I’m changing, changing into something I don’t quite recognize myself.” / “You’ve become more like yourself.” / “Could there be two mes?” / “Perhaps more than two.” / “It gets worse and worse. So which me do you actually love ?” / “All of them.” / “You’re being slippery.” Her lips curled slyly. “In fact you only love the me in your mind’s eye, and that me doesn’t exist, right?” / “No, that’s the combination of all the yous.” / She laughed. “It’s just as complicated as a mathematical calculation, if you end up with the three-headed, six-armed me, could you stand that?”

There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)

Word Forms

• mes
• me's self
• me's

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When Should You Use Me?

Use me when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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