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noun US /en/

half the width of an em

How often you will meet it

Rank 2,666 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,261 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. half the width of an em also: nut

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

en in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • They was all mounted en goin' it lickity switch.

    "Miss Lou" · Edward Payson Roe · Chapter 2

  • I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 · Mark Twain · Chapter 3

  • En bimeby she died, en he tuck en toted her way out dah in de prairie en buried her.

    How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays · Mark Twain · Chapter 1

  • He left a simple ensign en second and returns a colonel, and has the stuff in him to make a field-marshal!

    The Golden Dog · William Kirby · Chapter 2

  • Every living man there, with the exception of a few staff-officers, believed himself en route for Europe; their faces said as much.

    King--of the Khyber Rifles · Talbot Mundy · Chapter 1

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