Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jd

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: jd
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

2

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of Jiggs dinner.

noun

Initialism of Juris Doctor.

noun

Initialism of juvenile delinquent.

noun

Initialism of Julian date.

noun

Initialism of Julian day.

noun

Initialism of Jack Daniel's, an American brand of whiskey.

Colloquial

noun

Initialism of job description.

name

Initialism of Janata Dal (former Indian political party)

Example Sentences

"The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon."
"Could you get me a JD and Coke?"
"The only brolly that's in sight / Is the mini one that's in my drink / JD, coke and lime / This is how I want to spend my time"
"Mmmm, come here baby / I got the JD"

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

JDs (plural)

Questions

What does jd mean?: Initialism of Jiggs dinner.

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