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d¹

  • /diː/ letter, name
  • /d/ phoneme

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.

letter D · ds · d's

  1. letter, lowercase The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script. Rupert. I am told so, sir. But then so does the other Cadell. A devastating creature who spells it with two d’s.

number D · ds · d's

  1. lowercase, number The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

d²

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.

* (dice): abbreviation of dice

d

# Abbreviation of died or death.

#: William Shakespeare, d 1616

adjective

  1. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of dimensional
  2. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of declared

    Similar: dec

adverb

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of down Do you have the answer for 23d?
  2. Malaysia, abbreviation, informal Abbreviation of already, used in text messages to form the perfect tenses. Come d.

symbol

  1. A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p). £sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”
  2. Die or dice. d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides
  3. A penny, a measure of the size of nails.

d³

article

  1. pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of the that cavalier expression i see/on people's mugs don't keep/d pie from hitting dey faces

D⁴

  • /diː/ letter, name
  • /d/

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Old English D, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ (d, “daeg”).

letter d · Ds · D's

  1. letter, uppercase The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script. Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

number d · Ds · D's

  1. uppercase, number The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

D⁵

noun Ds

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of defense
  2. US, abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location. D-New York
  3. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
  4. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
  5. abbreviation, clipping, countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable Clipping of dick (“penis”) She wants the D!
  6. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of data
  7. countable, uncountable Canonical decomposition
  8. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue Symphony No. 4 Tragic D 417
  9. alternative, countable, slang, uncountable Alternative form of dee (“a police detective”). Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah) If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper
  10. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of difficulty

adverb

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of down (direction).

adjective

  1. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of dimensional
  2. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of divorced

proper noun

  1. with “The” The City of Detroit.
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of Deuteronomist

interjection

  1. euphemistic Damn. CAPTAIN. I never use a big, big D— ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. No, never! ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. Hardly ever! ALL. Hardly ever swears a big, big D—

D⁶

Where it comes from

From the shape of the upper case letter "D".

noun Ds

  1. The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
  2. The penalty arc on a football pitch. Johnson, a late substitute, applied the finishing touch but it was move kickstarted by the again-impressive Neco Williams, who skedaddled forward from halfway with the ball in tow before feeding Aaron Ramsey on the edge of the D.
  3. The penalty arc on a hockey field.

D⁷

Where it comes from

From the position (4) of the letter D in the English alphabet.

noun Ds

  1. Canada, US A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.

proper noun

  1. A programming language inspired from C++.

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@misc{d_2026,
  title = {d},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/d},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}