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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• (Philippine) IPA^(key): /ˈzeɪː/ (colloquial)
• Rhymes: -iː

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

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
   • 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190

     Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.

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, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
• izzard (Hong Kong, Scotland, South Asia)

• zee bar

• (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. Pronunciation spelling of the, representing primarily French or German accented English.

• EEZ, Eze.

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

• IPA^(key): /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.

2. a vast mass, expanse; multitude

• Afrikaans: see
• Berbice Creole Dutch: sei
• Javindo: see
• Negerhollands: see
• → Saramaccan: zé
• → Sranan Tongo: se

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

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

zee

1. vocative singular of zeus

From zeu.

zee f (plural zee)

1. goddess

Cognate with Zoogocho Zapotec za'a.

zee

1. a fresh ear of corn

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 20

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-zee (declinable)

1. old

• -pya

• mzee
• uzee

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon, from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan.

• zey, zie, ze, sau

zee (simple past zide)

1. to see

zee

1. Alternative form of zea (“sea”)

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 80 & 81