zee
- noun
- /zi/
- US
Examples
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- Thanks for taking care of me, Zee.
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Listen, Zee, I don't know how to tell you this--
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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.
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Then you and Felix and Zee carry Drake and Dad out.
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The letter zee is the last letter of the English alphabet.
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When I was learning the alphabet, I always had trouble remembering zee.
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In American English, the letter zee is pronounced differently than in British English, where it is called 'zed.'
Synonyms
The name British people use for the letter Z
An old name for the letter Z in English
A Scottish name for the letter Z in the alphabet
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
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.