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zee

/ziː/

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Philippines/ˈzeɪː/

zee noun: the name of the Latin script letter Z/z. Also the pronunciation spelling of the.

Noun (1)

zee (plural zees)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
    • Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
  2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds.
    • zee-bar.
  3. (colloquial, plural-normally) Sleep.
    • Time to get some zees.

Verb

zee (third-person singular simple present zees, present participle zeeing, simple past and past participle zeed)

  1. (Newfoundland, US, informal, intransitive) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  2. (Newfoundland, US, intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Zee

Zee (plural Zees)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Zee

Zee

  1. (Internet, derogatory) Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
    Synonyms:
    Ze, Zelly

Noun (2) capitalized: Zee

Zee (plural Zees)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of zee.

Also used as

zee is also the pronunciation spelling of the.

zee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

zee in Hindi

name of the letter Z, z
ज़ी zī, ज़ेड zeḍ

zee in Tamil

ஜீ-க்கு

zee in Marathi

name of the letter Z, z
झेड jheḍ

zee in Bengali

name of the letter Z, z
জেড jeḍ
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zee in Kannada
ಝೀ
zee in Tagalog
zi
zee in Arabic
زِيد zīd, دْزِيتَا dzītā
zee in Malay
zed
zee in Indonesian
zet
zee in Persian
زد zed, زی zi
zee in Thai
ซี sii, แซด sɛ̂t

Synonyms of zee

Forms of zee

Noun
pluralzees
pluralZees
Verb
third-person singular presentzees
present participlezeeing
past participlezeed
pastzeed
Proper noun
pluralZees

Plural of zee: zees

Origin of zee

Likely an alteration of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee. Fell out of usage in England by the 17th century, and made standard in the U.S. in American Dictionary of English Language by Noah Webster in 1828, though usage varied for decades afterwards.

From Shanghainese 徐 (6zhi).

Clipping of Zelenskyy.

Words formed from zee

Phrases with zee

Words that rhyme with zee

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Questions about zee

What does zee mean?
Zee means the name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
What is zee in Hindi?
Zee in Hindi is ज़ी (zī), ज़ेड (zeḍ). See Zee meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is zee?
Zee can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce zee?
Zee is pronounced /ziː/.
What is the plural of zee?
The plural of zee is zees.

Words near zee in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zee (page history and authors); Zee (page history and authors); zee (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zee (Kannada, 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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