zeenoun [ C ]
/ziː/us/ziː/USthe last letter of the English alphabet; Z:
As far as "zee vs. zed" goes, we Canadians still say "zed."
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- Tianna defiantly pronounces the last letter of the alphabet in the American fashion, "zee."
- It was left to a DJ guest to point out quietly that Jay Z, the rapper that he was talking about, was pronounced "zee" not "zed".
- "We are looking forward to the fact that she can spell 'colour' with a 'u' and we do not have to say 'zee' any more," said Robin Kent, a British expatriate who is moving his eight-year-old daughter Grace from an American school.
- The name of the letter Z is pronounced zed in British English as opposed to zee in American English, though the words are normally only spelled out when noting the difference.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Letters of alphabets
- A, a
- alphabetic
- B, b
- C, c
- chi
- I, i
- iota
- J, j
- K, k
- kappa
- phi
- psi
- Q, q
- R, r
- rho
- xi
- Y, y
- Z, z
- zed
- zeta
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