Zed

Zed

1. A diminutive of the male given name Zedekiah.
   • 1974, Alison Lurie, The War Between the Tates

     “So you changed it.”

     “Yes.” He turns off the tap.

     “Why did you choose the name Zed? What does it mean?”

     “Nothing. It's the last letter of the alphabet.”

Zed (plural Zeds)

1. Alternative form of Z (“a member of Generation Z”).
   • 2011, Mark McCrindle; Emily Wolfinger, Word Up: A Lexicon and Guide to Communication in the 21st Century, Halstead Press, →ISBN, page 175:

     Youth jargon is in constant flux. What may be all the go today, may disappear tomorrow. Herein some of the slang may be recognisable to Y-ers but not Zeds and vice versa.

   • 2017, Virginia Roach, “Foreword”, in Bruce S. Cooper, Carlos R. McCray, and Stephen V. Coffin, editors, Why School Leaders Need Vision: Managing Scarcity, Mandates, and Conflicting Goals for Educational Quality, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page ix:

     While Millennials started using computers for games, word processing, and rudimentary e-mail, Zeds have been fully immersed in social media from an early age.

   • 2020, Nuno Alberto Rodrigues Santos Loureiro; Lúcio Agostinho Barreiros dos Santos, “Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Classroom: An Exploratory Study in Professional Military Education”, in Álvaro Rocha and Robson Pacheco Pereira, editors, Developments and Advances in Defense and Security: Proceedings of MICRADS 2019 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., →ISBN, page 452:

     In today’s changing environment, new generations (e.g. Millennials and Zeds) learn differently.