de: Meaning and Definition of

de

1. from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin): Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.

de-

1. a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), intensity (decompound). Cf. di-,.

DE

1. Delaware (approved esp. for use with zip code).
2. destroyer escort.

de'

1. dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei): de' Medici.

D.E.

1. Doctor of Engineering.
2. driver education.