English

Proper noun

Dee

1. A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
3. A female given name, short for names beginning with a "D".

Quotations

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: IV: xi: 39:

  And following Dee, which Britons long ygone

  Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend;

Derived terms

• Deeside
• Miller of Dee

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on Dee, linking to famous people with this surname and the name of various rivers

Manx

Proper noun

Dee f

1. A female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century.

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• de (Northumbria)

Verb

dee ‎(third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)

1. (Northumbria) To do.

   What are ye deein man!

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165

Noun

dee ‎(plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   the pommel is furnished with dees.

3. (colloquial) Police detective.

   the dees are about.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Translations

Derived terms

• deejay

Chairel

Noun

dee

1. water

References

• W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch die.

Pronoun

dee

1. (relative) who, which, that

Estonian

Noun

dee ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

dee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

Declension

Italian

Noun

dee f

1. plural of dea

Low German

Verb

dee

1. First-person singular past of doon

Maquiritari

Noun

dee

1. tree
2. wood

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

Scots

Etymology 1

Verb

dee ‎(third-person singular present dees, present participle deein, past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. to die

Etymology 2

Verb

dee ‎(third-person singular present dees, present participle deein, past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. (Doric) to do

   Fit ye deein?‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Võro

Noun

dee ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

Inflection

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