zed
pronunciation
How to pronounce zed in British English:
UK [zed]
How to pronounce zed in American English:
US [zed]
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- Noun:
- the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet
Word Origin
- zed (n.)
- c. 1400, from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Greek zeta, from Hebrew zayin, letter name, literally "weapon;" so called in reference to the shape of this letter in ancient Hebrew. U.S. pronunciation zee is first attested 1670s. Other dialectal names for the letter are izzard, ezod, uzzard, and zod.
Example
- 1. One of zed 's tusks is misshapen , evidence of the hard life he led .
- 2. Above : researchers have almost finished freeing zed 's skull from the matrix of sand and tar that preserved it .
- 3. Before zed 's tusks came along , the page had only bits and pieces of mammoth tusks . Not one piece was larger than a football .
- 4. As cool as it is to find charismatic megafauna like zed , paleontologists at the page museum get more excited about the smaller fossils the turtles and mice , snails and centipedes , fish and ferns .
- 5. Why do you love zed ?