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dee

6 9.9
The spoken name of the letter D in English
  • noun
  • /diː/
translation icon : dee
  • Gulliver (loud): Young woman, are you indeed deaf (pronounced dee), or do you lack humanity?

Examples

  • Just don't make a big whoop-dee-doo about it, all right?

    Corner Gas: The Movie (2014)

  • It's like we call them fiddle dee-dee ferns.

    Nightbitch (2024)

  • All right, this is called the loop-dee-loop.

    Action Point (2018)

  • The only way to obtain higher energies in the cyclotron seems to be to increase the voltage on the dees, the name usually used for the accelerating electrodes in cyclotrons, because of their shape.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The letter dee is the fourth letter of the alphabet.

  • In phonetics, dee is pronounced as /diː/.

  • When spelling out words, he said the letter dee clearly.

Synonyms

D
vsdee
16 1.0

The fourth letter of the English alphabet and a musical note

refers only to the letter name and not to any musical meaning

Compounds

Miller of Dee
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who is happy with a simple, cheerful life

Pee Dee River
5.5

A river in central North Carolina and northeast South Carolina that flows into the Atlantic Ocean

Surface Forms

dee singular
dees plural

Etymology

Dee is the spoken 'name of the letter D' in English; it is simply the way we say the letter, just like bee for B and see for C. So dee is the name you use when you say the letter D aloud.