tee
/ˈtiː/
tee noun: the name of the Latin script letter T/t. Also the ellipsis of tee-shirt.
Noun (1)
tee (plural tees)
- The name of the Latin script letter T/t.
- The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged
- They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant
- Something shaped like the letter T.
- angles and tees
- The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.
Verb (1)
tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)
Noun (2)
tee (plural tees)
- A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
- A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
- Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times
- The target area of a curling rink.
- The mark at which players aim in quoits.
Verb (2)
tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)
- To place a ball on a tee
- If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf
- Synonyms:
- tee up
Verb (3)
tee
Noun (3)
tee (plural tees)
- A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.
Noun (4) capitalized: TEE
TEE (plural TEEs)
- Initialism of transesophageal echocardiogram.
- Synonyms:
- TOE
- Initialism of thromboembolic event.
- Initialism of term end examination.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: TEE
TEE
- Initialism of Trans Europ Express.
- Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees / Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E1977, “Trans-Europe Express”, in Trans-Europe Express, performed by Kraftwerk
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tee
Tee
- An Ogoni language spoken in Nigeria.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Tee
Tee
- A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
Noun (5) capitalized: Tee
Tee (plural Tees)
- Alternative letter-case form of tee.
Also used as
tee is also the ellipsis of tee-shirt.
tee meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Nepali
tee in Hindi
- name of the letter T, t
- टी ṭī
tee in Marathi
- name of the letter T, t
- टी ṭī
tee in Bengali
- name of the letter T, t
- টি ṭi
tee in Nepali
- टीइङ
More languagesFewer languages
- tee in Tagalog
- ti, puntod
- tee in Arabic
- تِي tī
- tee in Malay
- ti
- tee in Indonesian
- te
- tee in Thai
- ที tii
- tee in Vietnamese
- tê, tờ
- tee in Myanmar
- တီ ti
Examples of tee in a sentence
- Reyes teed off on a hanging curve to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.
- I couldn't resist to giggle a little tee hee.
- I always check the wind direction before I tee off.
Synonyms of tee
Forms of tee
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tees |
| plural | TEEs |
| plural | Tees |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tees |
| present participle | teeing |
| past participle | teed |
| past | teed |
Origin of tee
* From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin tē (the name of the letter T). * (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.
First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.
From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (which was contracted from earlier tēohan, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan.
Words formed from tee
- baby tee
- band tee
- bee tee dubs
- branch tee
- bulb tee
- graphic tee
- guinea tee
- pocket tee
- run tee
- seetee
- technical tee
- tee bend
- tee joint
- tee junction
- tee line
- teepee
- tees and blues
- tee-section
- tee-shaped
- teeshirt
- teetotal
- teevee
- to a tee
- union tee
- retee
- tee ball
- teebox
- tee off
- tee on
- tee time
- tee up
Phrases with tee
- pie tee
- tee box
- tee heed
- tee hees
- tee balls
- tee boxes
- tee hee'd
- tee lines
- tee shirt
- tee times
- tee heeing
- tee shirts
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with tee
Questions about tee
- What does tee mean?
- Tee means the name of the Latin script letter T/t.
- What is tee in Hindi?
- Tee in Hindi is टी (ṭī). See Tee meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tee?
- Tee can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tee?
- Tee is pronounced /ˈtiː/.
- What is the plural of tee?
- The plural of tee is tees.
Words near tee in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tee (page history and authors); TEE (page history and authors); Tee (page history and authors); tee (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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