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jaz

jaz noun: dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).

Noun

jaz (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).

Proper noun capitalized: Jaz

Jaz

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
    • In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how...2024, Gideon Haigh, My Brother Jaz, Melbourne University Publishing, published 2024, →ISBN, page Back Cover
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine or any of its variant spellings.
  3. A diminutive of the male given name James.
    Synonyms:
    Jamie, Jaime, Jem, Jemmy
  4. A diminutive of the female given name Janet or Janette.
    • I know, from picking up the post from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.1995, Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5

Synonyms of jaz

Forms of jaz

alternative formJas
alternative formJazz

Origin of jaz

Clipping + -z.

Questions about jaz

What does jaz mean?
Jaz means dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).
What part of speech is jaz?
Jaz can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near jaz in the dictionary

  1. jaywalkers
  2. jaywalking
  3. jaywalks
  4. Jaywick
  5. Jayzus
  6. jaz
  7. Jaza
  8. jazail
  9. jazails
  10. jazakallah
  11. jazarine

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