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zee

zee

37 9.9
The name Americans use for the letter Z
  • noun
  • /zi/
  • US
translation icon : zeta

Examples

  • - Thanks for taking care of me, Zee.

  • Listen, Zee, I don't know how to tell you this--

  • Good points you made, Zee; you covered everything rather well for us, with all salient points.

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  • Mr. Van der Zee is a Dutchman.

  • Then you and Felix and Zee carry Drake and Dad out.

  • The letter zee is the last letter of the English alphabet.

  • When I was learning the alphabet, I always had trouble remembering zee.

  • In American English, the letter zee is pronounced differently than in British English, where it is called 'zed.'

Synonyms

zed
vszee
  • UK
26 9.9

The name British people use for the letter Z

is the American name rather than the British form
izzard
vszee
  • Archaic
1 9.9

An old name for the letter Z in English

is the current American name rather than the archaic form
ezed
vszee
  • UK
9.9

A Scottish name for the letter Z in the alphabet

is the American name not the Scottish variant

Compounds

A bridge that crossed the Hudson River in New York State, connecting Westchester and Rockland counties

A former bay of the North Sea in the Netherlands that the Dutch closed with a dam in 1932

Surface Forms

zee singular
zed singular

Etymology

The word zee is the American name for the letter 'Z'. Americans changed the sound so it rhymes with other letter names like bee, cee and dee, which makes the alphabet easy to sing, so that's why people in the United States say 'zee' instead of zed.