zee
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
1670s: variant of British English zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
zee (plural zees) (chiefly US, Newfoundland, sometimes Canada)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
- Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
- (colloquial) (usually plural) Sleep (as in "get some zees").
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
name of the letter Z, z
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See alsoEdit
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
VerbEdit
zee (third-person singular simple present zees, present participle zeeing, simple past and past participle zeed) (chiefly US, Newfoundland)
- (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
- (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
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Etymology 2Edit
ArticleEdit
zee
- Eye dialect spelling of the, representing primarily French-accented English.
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)
- sea
- De oude man en de zee.
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Terms derived from zee
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EstonianEdit
NounEdit
zee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.