dee
/ˈdiː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.84 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
name
A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
name
A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
name
A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of dee.
Example Sentences
- "And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]"
- "His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox."
- "What are ye deein man!"
- "My au'd father did it. But it's sae mony years syne, it must be wore out by now, and I shall have to dee it again."
- "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."
- "IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo"."
Etymology
Variant of do.