zed (z d)n. Chiefly British The letter z. [Middle English, from Old French zede, from Late Latin z  ta, zeta, from Greek; see zeta.] |
zed [zɛd]
n
(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) the Brit spoken form of the letter z US word zee
[from Old French zede, via Late Latin from Greek zēta]
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| Noun | 1. | zed - the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" |
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