zee

See also: Zee, zée, zêe, and žee

English

Etymology 1

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈziː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

zee (plural zees) (chiefly US, Newfoundland, Philippines, sometimes Canada)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds.

   zee-bar.

3. (colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep.

   Time to get some zees.

Synonyms

• zed (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
• izzard (Scotland, South Asia)

Translations

name of the letter Z, z

• Arabic: زِيد‎ m (zīd), دْزِيتَا‎ f (dzītā)
• Catalan: zeta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Czech: zet (cs)
• Dutch: zet (nl)
• Esperanto: zo (eo)
• Faroese: sett n, setta n
• Finnish: tseta (fi)
• French: zède (fr) m
• Galician: zeta (gl) m
• German: Zet n, Zett (de) n
• Greek: ζεντ n (zent), ζι n (zi)
• Hawaiian: zeta
• Hindi: ज़ी (zī), ज़ेड (zeḍ)
• Hungarian: zé
• Icelandic: zeta f

• Ido: ze (io)
• Irish: zae
• Italian: zeta (it) f
• Japanese: ゼット (zetto), ゼッド (zeddo), ズィー (zī) (rare)
• Korean: 제드 (jedeu), 지 (ko) (ji) (same as "G")
• Latin: zēta (la)
• Malay: zet
• Marathi: जेड (jeḍ)
• Occitan: izèda f
• Persian: زد‎ (fa) (zed), زی‎ (fa) (zi)
• Polish: zet (pl)
• Portuguese: zê (pt) m
• Russian: зэд n (zɛd) (English), зэт n (zɛt), цэт n (cɛt) (German)
• Spanish: zeta (es) f
• Swedish: zäta (sv) n
• Tagalog: zi
• Thai: ซี (th) (sii), แซด (th) (sɛ́t)
• Turkish: ze (tr)
• Welsh: sèd f

See also

• (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

Verb

zee (third-person singular simple present zees, present participle zeeing, simple past and past participle zeed) (chiefly US, Newfoundland)

1. (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
2. (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

See also

• zeta

Etymology 2

Article

zee

1. Pronunciation spelling of the, representing primarily French-accented English.

Anagrams

• EEZ, Eze.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zeː/

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• Hyphenation: zee
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)

1. sea

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

Derived terms

• binnenzee
• open zee
• randzee
• vlammenzee
• vuurzee
• wereldzee
• zeebeer
• zeehond
• zeekat
• zeekoe
• zeekoet
• zeekraal
• Zeeland
• zeeluipaard
• zeeman
• zeemeermin
• zeemijl
• zeenaald
• zeeniveau
• zeeotter
• zeeschelp
• zeeslag
• zeespiegel
• zeevaarder
• zeewater
• zeewering
• zeezout

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: see
• → Sranan Tongo: se
• → Saramaccan: zé

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Estonian

Noun

zee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

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Latin

Noun

zee

1. vocative singular of zeus

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Swahili

Adjective

-zee (declinable)

1. old

Inflection

Inflected forms of -zee

Noun class	singular	plural
M-wa class	mzee	wazee
M-mi class	mzee	mizee
Ma class	zee	mazee
Ki-vi class	kizee	vizee
N class	nzee	nzee
U class	mzee	nzee
Pa class	pazee	pazee
Ku class	kuzee	kuzee
Mu class	muzee	muzee

Antonyms

• -pya

Related terms

• mzee
• uzee