See zed in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "→ Marathi: जेड (jeḍ)"
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"text": "→ Russian: зэд (zɛd)"
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"text": "→ Thai: แซด (sɛ̂t)"
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"depth": 1,
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"2": "sèd",
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"ref": "1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed:",
"text": "Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.",
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{
"ref": "1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:",
"text": "I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy:",
"text": "\"Zedding away.\" \"God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie.\"",
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"ref": "1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang:",
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"word": "Generation Zed"
},
{
"word": "Gen Zed"
},
{
"word": "Gen Zedder"
},
{
"word": "Gen-Zedder"
},
{
"word": "Zed"
},
{
"word": "Zed-car"
},
{
"word": "zedsexual"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "ζεντ",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Greek: ζεντ (zent)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Greek: ζεντ (zent)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "ज़ेड",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hindi: ज़ेड (zeḍ)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hindi: ज़ेड (zeḍ)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ゼット",
"3": "ゼッド",
"bor": "1",
"tr1": "zetto",
"tr2": "zeddo"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: ゼット (zetto), ゼッド (zeddo)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: ゼット (zetto), ゼッド (zeddo)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "제드",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 제드 (jedeu)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 제드 (jedeu)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "zed",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Malay: zed",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Malay: zed"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mr",
"2": "जेड",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Marathi: जेड (jeḍ)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Marathi: जेड (jeḍ)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "зэд",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: зэд (zɛd)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: зэд (zɛd)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "th",
"2": "แซด",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Thai: แซด (sɛ̂t)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thai: แซด (sɛ̂t)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "sèd",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Welsh: sèd",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Welsh: sèd"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "zed"
},
"expansion": "Middle English zed",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "zede"
},
"expansion": "Old French zede",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin zeta",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ζῆτα"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "he",
"3": "ז",
"tr": "zayin"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew ז (zayin)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of zeta",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Spanish zeta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Zett"
},
"expansion": "German Zett",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "zède"
},
"expansion": "French zède",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Italian zeta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "zê"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese zê",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"plural"
]
}
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{
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"2": "chiefly",
"3": "Commonwealth",
"4": "UK",
"5": "Irish"
},
"expansion": "(chiefly Commonwealth, UK, Ireland)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "a"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "bee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "dee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "e"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ef"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "gee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "aitch"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "i"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "jay"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "kay"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "el"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "em"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "en"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "o"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "pee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cue"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ar"
},
{
"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"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "wye"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zed"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Latin letter names"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 298:",
"text": "Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z."
],
"links": [
[
"Z",
"Z#English"
],
[
"z",
"z#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "zed-bar",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Something Z-shaped."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in combination) Something Z-shaped."
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"in-compounds"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm going to go get some zeds.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sleep."
],
"links": [
[
"Sleep",
"sleep"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep."
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"colloquial",
"plural-normally"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A zombie."
],
"links": [
[
"zombie",
"zombie"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A zombie."
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/zɛd/"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-zed.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-au-zed.ogg/En-au-zed.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-au-zed.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛd"
}
],
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{
"sense": "all",
"tags": [
"Newfoundland",
"Philippines",
"US"
],
"word": "zee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"letter"
],
"word": "izzard"
},
{
"sense": "sleep",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"common"
],
"word": "zee"
}
],
"word": "zed"
}
{
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"British English",
"Commonwealth English",
"English 3-letter words",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Hebrew",
"English terms derived from Late Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from the shape of letters",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛd",
"Rhymes:English/ɛd/1 syllable",
"en:Zombies"
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "zed"
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"expansion": "Middle English zed",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "zede"
},
"expansion": "Old French zede",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin zeta",
"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
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"3": "ζῆτα"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "he",
"3": "ז",
"tr": "zayin"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew ז (zayin)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of zeta",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Spanish zeta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Zett"
},
"expansion": "German Zett",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "zède"
},
"expansion": "French zède",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "zeta"
},
"expansion": "Italian zeta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "zê"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese zê",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from beta, eta and theta. Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented \"ts\" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê.",
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{
"form": "zeds",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "zedding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "zedded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "zedded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "chiefly",
"3": "UK",
"4": "Irish",
"5": "Commonwealth"
},
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"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "zeta"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed:",
"text": "Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:",
"text": "I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy:",
"text": "\"Zedding away.\" \"God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)"
],
"links": [
[
"sleep",
"sleep"
],
[
"nap",
"nap"
],
[
"zzz",
"zzz"
],
[
"catch some z's",
"catch some z's"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)"
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"informal",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin:",
"text": "We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang:",
"text": "Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns."
],
"links": [
[
"zigzag",
"zigzag"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns."
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"intransitive",
"rare"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/zɛd/"
},
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"audio": "en-au-zed.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-au-zed.ogg/En-au-zed.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-au-zed.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛd"
}
],
"word": "zed"
}
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