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zeds

zeds is the plural of zed.

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

Noun capitalized: Zeds

Zeds

  1. (plural) plural of Zed
  2. Alternative letter-case form of zeds.

Phrases with zeds

Questions about zeds

What is zeds the plural of?
Zeds is the plural of zed.
What part of speech is zeds?
Zeds is a noun.

Words near zeds in the dictionary

  1. zedoaries
  2. zedoary
  3. Zedong
  4. zedonk
  5. zedonks
  6. zeds
  7. zedsexual
  8. zee
  9. Zeeb
  10. zeebra
  11. Zeebrugge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zeds (page history and authors); Zeds (page history and authors); zed (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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