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/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (CAN)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

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

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
  2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
  3. (colloquial) (usually plural) Sleep (as in "get some zees").
Synonyms
  • zed (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
  • izzard (Scotland, South Asia)
Translations
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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.

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Etymology 2

Article

zee

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

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • IPA(key): /zeː/, /zeː/
  • audio(file)

Noun

zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)

  1. sea
    De oude man en de zee.
    The Old Man and the Sea.

Derived terms

Estonian

Noun

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

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

Latin

Noun

zee

  1. vocative singular of zeus

Swahili

Adjective

-zee (declinable)

  1. old

Inflection

Antonyms

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