English Explanatory Dictionary

Dee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
  2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
  3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
  4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
  5. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
  6. A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
  7. A surname of multiple origins.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of dee.
verb
  1. To do.
noun
  1. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.
  2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
  3. A police detective.

Pronunciation

/diː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dee.wav /ˈdiː/ /dɪ/ /dɪv/

Word forms

Dee Dees diz deein dyun de

Etymology

Variant of do.

Related words

Ardee Tweedle-dee whoop-dee-do whoop-dee-doo whoop dee doo zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Derived words

Bangor-on-Dee Billy Dee Deeside Miller of Dee Mount Dee deejay ecks dee

Translations

Arabic: دِي Asturian: de Bengali: ডি Bulgarian: де Burmese: ဒီ Catalan: de Chinese Cantonese: dog (dok¹) Esperanto: do Finnish: dee French: dé Galician: de Greek: ντι Hawaiian: dē Hindi: डी Icelandic: dé Ido: de Irish: dé Irish: dair Japanese: ディー Korean: 디 Latin: dē Malay: di Marathi: डी Occitan: de Persian: د Persian: دی Portuguese: dê Russian: ди Russian: дэ Spanish: de Thai: ดี Turkish: de Vietnamese: dê Vietnamese: dờ Welsh: di
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