1670s: variant of British English zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin).
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
- Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
- (colloquial) (usually plural) Sleep (as in "get some zees").
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
- (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
- (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
zee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])