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Zell

Zell proper noun: former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands. Also the ellipsis of Zell am See.

Proper noun

Zell

  1. Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.
    • I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly...1761, William Thompson, A Copy of Thompson's Justification, Founded on the Solid Principles of Truth and Public Virtue, London: [s.n.], page 8

Noun capitalized: ZELL

ZELL (plural ZELLs)

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of zero-length launch.

Also used as

Zell is also the ellipsis of Zell am See.

Forms of Zell

pluralZELLs

Phrases with Zell

Questions about Zell

What does Zell mean?
Zell means former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.
What part of speech is Zell?
Zell can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Zell in the dictionary

  1. zelkoua
  2. zelkouas
  3. zelkova
  4. zelkovamycin
  5. zelkovas
  6. Zell
  7. Zell am See
  8. Zellars
  9. Zellarses
  10. Zeller
  11. zellerite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zell (page history and authors); ZELL (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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