pronoun , noun
■ pronoun
/ mi; NAmE ; strong form miː/ the form of I that is used when the speaker or writer is the object of a verb or preposition, or after the verb be :
Don't hit me.
Excuse me!
Give it to me.
You're taller than me.
Hello, it's me.
'Who's there?' 'Only me.'
HELP NOTE : The use of me in the last three examples is correct in modern standard English. I in these sentences would be considered much too formal for almost all contexts, especially in BrE .
■ noun
(also mi ) /miː/ ( music ) the third note of a major scale
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WORD ORIGIN
pronoun Old English mē , accusative and dative of I (pronoun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch mij , German mir (dative), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin me , Greek (e)me , and Sanskrit mā .
noun late Middle English mi , representing (as an arbitrary name for the note) the first syllable of mira , taken from a Latin hymn.