zed

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  1. noun Chiefly British The letter z.

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  • I don't direct my affections toward the alphabet, but if I have to pick one, it would be the letter zed (Z). —  Ed Stoffel
  • It was one thing for me to know that Wayne and Shuster said "zed" and not "zee," and another to be redundantly reminded so every time by someone else on the couch. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • A little Rock Band and then some zed-slaying slaughterfest. —  1UP RSS feed
  • To keep costs down, the photobioreactors will be built locally by black economically empowered small and medium-zed enterprises, based on the original Phytolutions designs, with the algae housed in plastic bags on metal frames, and the carbon dioxide piped to each bag through long tubes. —  Engineering News | Home
  • Geärden groun', as I've a-zed Is better near woone's bwoard an' bed PENTRIDGE BY THE RIVER Pentridge!--oh! —  Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
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  1. Middle English, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zēta, zeta, from Greek; see zeta.

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  1. = French zède, from Latin zeta, from Greek ζῆτα, the name of the letter Z.
 

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