abbe
pronunciation
How to pronounce abbe in British English:
UK ['æbeɪ]
How to pronounce abbe in American English:
US ['æbeɪ]
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- Noun:
- a French abbot
Word Origin
- abbe (n.)
- 1520s, title given in France to "every one who wears an ecclesiastical dress," especially one having no assigned ecclesiastical duty, from French abbé, from Late Latin abbatem, accusative of abbas (see abbot).
Example
- 1. If you 're going to martyr yourself , abbe .
- 2. Abbe , don 't send me away , I beg you .
- 3. Determination index of refraction of liquid by abbe refractometer .
- 4. You best come quick , abbe !
- 5. I 'd have thought that was your duty , abbe , not mine .