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zee¹

  • /ziː/
  • /ˈzeɪː/ Philippines, colloquial

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Likely an alteration of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee. Fell out of usage in England by the 17th century, and made standard in the U.S. in American Dictionary of English Language by Noah Webster in 1828, though usage varied for decades afterwards.

noun zees

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Z/z. Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
  2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds. zee-bar.
  3. colloquial, plural normally Sleep. Time to get some zees.

Similar: zed, izzard, uzzard

verb zees · zeeing · zeed

  1. Newfoundland, US, informal, intransitive To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  2. Newfoundland, US, intransitive, rare To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

zee²

article

  1. Newfoundland, US, pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of the, representing primarily French or German accented English.

Zee³

Where it comes from

From Shanghainese 徐 (6zhi) or Wu 錢／钱 (2zie)

proper noun Zees

  1. A surname from Wu.

Zee⁴

proper noun

  1. Internet, derogatory Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

    Similar: Ze, Zelly

Zee⁵

noun Zees

  1. Alternative letter-case form of zee

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: zed, uniform, eez, sea, marine, offshore, maritime, cheng, madness, aan, xie, egmont, seas, zeta, zhee, epsilon

noun

Similar: zed, izzard, uzzard

Translations

Every language

noun name of the letter Z, z

Españolzeta, zeda
한국어제트 jeteu, 지 ji
日本語ゼット zetto, ゼッド zeddo, ズィー zī
हिन्दीज़ी zī, ज़ेड zeḍ
Portuguêszê
Françaiszède
DeutschZet, Zett
Italianozeta
Ελληνικάζεντ zent, ζι zi
Русскийзэт zɛt
العربيةزِيد zīd, دْزِيتَا dzītā
עבריתזֵד zed

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@misc{zee_2026,
  title = {zee},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zee},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}