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zad

zad is the obsolete form of zed.

zad is the alternative form of daad.

Meaning of zed

Noun

zed (plural zeds)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
    • Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 298
    Synonyms:
    1-3
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, in-compounds) Something Z-shaped.
    • zed-bar
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, colloquial, plural-normally) Sleep.
    • I'm going to go get some zeds.
    Synonyms:
    zee
  4. (Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) A zombie.
    • A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.

See all 7 meanings of zed

Meaning of daad

Noun

daad (plural daads)

  1. The letter ض in the Arabic script.

Noun capitalized: ZAD

ZAD (plural ZADs)

  1. A militant open-air demonstration in the form of a defended squat.
    • For the majority, the ZAD offers an alternative, simpler and more utopian way of life.2017 December 28, Kim Willsher, “End of la ZAD? France’s ‘utopian’ anti-airport community faces bitter last stand”, in The Guardian

Forms of zad

pluralzads
pluralZADs

Origin of zad

Borrowed from French ZAD, short for zone à défendre (“zone to defend”).

Questions about zad

What does zad mean?
Zad means a militant open-air demonstration in the form of a defended squat.
What is zad the obsolete form of?
Zad is the obsolete form of zed.
What part of speech is zad?
Zad is a noun.
What is the plural of zad?
The plural of zad is zads.

Words near zad in the dictionary

  1. zacusca
  2. zacuscă
  3. Zacynthian
  4. Zacynthians
  5. Zacynthus
  6. zad
  7. zada
  8. Zadak
  9. zadakat
  10. Zadaks
  11. Zadar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zad (page history and authors); ZAD (page history and authors); zed (page history and authors); daad (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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