See dee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
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],
"word": "de"
}
],
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}
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"Terms with Asturian translations",
"Terms with Bengali translations",
"Terms with Burmese translations",
"Terms with Cantonese translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hawaiian translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Marathi translations",
"Terms with Occitan translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "deejay"
},
{
"word": "ecks dee"
}
],
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"letter-name"
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{
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{
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"letter-name"
],
"word": "bee"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cee"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "e"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ef"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "gee"
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{
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"letter-name"
],
"word": "aitch"
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{
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"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "i"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "jay"
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{
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"letter-name"
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"word": "kay"
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{
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"Latin",
"letter-name"
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{
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"Latin",
"letter-name"
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"word": "em"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
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"word": "o"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "pee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cue"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ar"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ess"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "tee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "vee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "double-u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ex"
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "wye"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zed"
},
{
"word": "Tweedle-dee"
},
{
"word": "whoop-dee-do"
},
{
"word": "whoop-dee-doo"
},
{
"word": "whoop dee doo"
},
{
"word": "zip-a-dee-doo-dah"
}
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"categories": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Latin letter names"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:",
"text": "I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5:",
"text": "IED [is spoken] as \"eye-ee-dee\" instead of \"I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo\".",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of the Latin-script letter D/d."
],
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[
"D",
"D#English"
],
[
"d",
"d#English"
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{
"text": "the pommel is furnished with dees.",
"type": "example"
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"dee lock",
"dee lock"
]
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"text": "the dees are about.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A:",
"text": "Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)\nIf we see the Ds, bitch, move proper",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Police detective."
],
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"(colloquial) Police detective."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdiː/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iː"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"Northumbria"
],
"word": "de"
}
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dī",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دِي"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ḍi",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "ডি"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "di",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "ဒီ"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Hong-Kong"
],
"word": "dog (dok¹)"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "do"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dee"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dé"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "nti",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ντι"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dē"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ḍī",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "डी"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dé"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dé"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dair"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dī",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "ディー"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "di",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "디"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dē"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "di"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "ḍī",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "डी"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "de",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "د"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"english": "di",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "english",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "دی"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dê"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "di",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"English",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ди"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dɛ",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "дэ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dii",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "ดี"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "de"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dê"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"word": "dờ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "name of the letter D, d",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "di"
}
],
"word": "dee"
}
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