zee

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈziː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

zee (plural zees) (chiefly US, Newfoundland, 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.

• zed (UK, Ireland, Canada, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African)
• izzard (Scotland, South Asia)

• (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

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.

• zeta

zee

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

• EEZ, Eze.

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

• IPA^(key): /zeː/, /zeː/

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• Hyphenation: zee
• Rhymes: -eː

zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)

1. sea

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

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

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

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

zee

1. vocative singular of zeus

-zee (declinable)

1. old

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• mzee
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