tees
/ˈtiːz/
tees is the plural of tee.
Meaning of tee
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
- Something shaped like the letter T.
- angles and tees
- The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.
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.
Proper noun capitalized: Tees
Tees
- A river in the counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire, north east England. The river flows through the city of Middlesbrough.
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
Noun (1) capitalized: Tees
Tees
- Alternative letter-case form of tees.
Noun (2) capitalized: TEEs
TEEs
- plural of TEE
Origin of tees
From Old English *Tēs(e), but uncertain beyond that. Possibly from Proto-Brythonic *tes (“heat”), which would be in reference to the “boiling” surging water of so much of the upper river, especially at places like Cauldron Snout.
Words formed from tees
Phrases with tees
Words that rhyme with tees
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about tees
- What does tees mean?
- Tees means a river in the counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire, north east England. The river flows through the city of Middlesbrough.
- What is tees the plural of?
- Tees is the plural of tee.
- What part of speech is tees?
- Tees can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce tees?
- Tees is pronounced /ˈtiːz/ (UK).
Words near tees in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tees (page history and authors); Tees (page history and authors); TEEs (page history and authors); tee (page history and authors). 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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