English Explanatory Dictionary

d

English dictionary entry

Meanings

character
  1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
num
  1. The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
adj
  1. Abbreviation of dimensional.
  2. Abbreviation of declared.
adv
  1. Abbreviation of down.
  2. Abbreviation of already, used in text messages to form the perfect tenses.
symbol
  1. A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).
  2. Die or dice.
  3. A penny, a measure of the size of nails.
article
  1. Pronunciation spelling of the
character
  1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
num
  1. The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of defense.
  2. Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.
  3. Abbreviation of drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
  4. Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
  5. Clipping of dick (“penis”)
  6. Abbreviation of data.
  7. Canonical decomposition
  8. Abbreviation of Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.
  9. Alternative form of dee (“a police detective”).
adv
  1. Abbreviation of down (direction).
adj
  1. Abbreviation of dimensional.
  2. Abbreviation of divorced.
name
  1. The City of Detroit.
  2. Abbreviation of Deuteronomist.
intj
  1. Damn.
noun
  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.
  3. The penalty arc on a hockey field.
noun
  1. 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.
name
  1. A programming language inspired from C++.

Pronunciation

/diː/ /d/ en-us-d.ogg en-uk-d.ogg

Word forms

d ds d's

Etymology

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

Synonyms

dec

Antonyms

R

Related words

D C KC KD NF

Derived words

abecedism alpha-d-galactosidase d-amphetamine d-beat d-block d flat d-flat d-hole d-man d-note d-pad d-sharp d sharp d-word k-d tree small-d democrat small d democrat 0d 1d 2d 3d 2,4-D D layer D-list D-Mart double D D region D-value NFD Pro-D 10D chess 11D chess 12D chess 2.5D 4D 5D chess 6D chess 7D chess 8D chess 9D chess
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