Fee

See also: fee, fée, fêe, feë, fe'e, and fɛɛ́

English

Proper noun

Fee

1. A surname.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Fiona.
   • 2023, Zoë Jasko, Hope is Daffodil Bright:

     Then turning to Fiona, she said, “Fee, I'll only be a minute. […]

German

Etymology

Middle High German fei(n)e. Borrowed from French fée, from Latin fata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: Fee
• Homophone: Feh

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Fee f (genitive Fee, plural Feen)

1. fairy

Declension

Declension of Fee [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Fee	die	Feen
genitive	einer	der	Fee	der	Feen
dative	einer	der	Fee	den	Feen
accusative	eine	die	Fee	die	Feen

Hyponyms

• Glücksfee, Märchenfee, Waldfee, Zahnfee, Zauberfee, Zuckerfee, Zuckerstangenfee
• Küchenfee, Lottofee, Putzfee

Related terms

• feien

Further reading

• “Fee” in Duden online
• “Fee”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old French fae, from Latin fata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

Fee f (plural Feeën)

1. fairy

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German vehe, from Old Saxon fehu.

Noun

Fee n

1. cattle