FromMiddle Englishzed,zedde,zede, fromOld Frenchzede, fromLate Latinzeta, fromAncient Greekζῆτα(zêta), fromHebrewז(zayin) with influence fromβῆτα(bêta),ἦτα(êta) andθῆτα(thêta). The letter had a rare usage in Old English, such as inbezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation ofZ). For the sleep sense, seezzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter.Doublet ofzeta. Cognate toSpanishzeta,GermanZett,Frenchzède,Italianzeta, and perhapsPortuguesezê.

• IPA^(key): /zɛd/

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• Rhymes:-ɛd

zed (pluralzeds)(chiefly Commonwealth, Ireland)

1. The name of theLatin script letterZ/z.
   • 2021, Pat Manser,More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page298:

     Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.

2. (in combination) Something Z-shaped.

   zed-bar

3. (colloquial, usually in theplural)Sleep.

   I'm going to go get somezeds.

4. (slang) Azombie.

   A horde ofzeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.

• (all):zee(US, Philippines, Newfoundland)
• (letter):izzard(Scotland)
• (sleep):zee(Canada)(more common)

• from A to Zed
• Generation Zed,Gen Zed,Gen Zedder,Gen-Zedder,Zed
• zed-bed
• Zed-car
• zedsexual

• → Greek:ζεντ(zent)
• → Hindi:ज़ेड(zeḍ)
• → Japanese:ゼット(zetto),ゼッド(zeddo)
• → Korean:제드(jedeu)
• → Malay:zed
• → Marathi:जेड(jeḍ)
• → Russian:зэд(zɛd)
• → Thai:แซด(sɛ̂t)
• → Welsh:sèd

• (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

zed (third-person singular simple presentzeds,present participlezedding,simple past and past participlezedded)(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth)

1. (intransitive, informal) Tosleep ornap. (Comparezzz,catch some z's.)
   • 1991, Jim Cartwright,Bed:

     Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.

   • 1992, David Robins,Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:

     I guess I must havezedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.

   • 2007, Polly Williams,The Yummy Mummy:

     "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."

2. (intransitive, rare) Tozigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
   • 1931, Reginald Rankin,The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin:

     We werezedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...

   • 1994, Tibor Fischer,The thought gang:

     Licking his lips, his handzedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.

• zeta

• DEZ,Dez

FromBritish Englishzed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzed/ [ˈzet̪̚]

zéd (pluralzed-zedorzed²)

1. The name of theLatin script letterZ/z.

• zain(Jawi letter name)
• zet(Indonesian)

• (Latin-script letter names)huruf;e,bi,si,di,i,ef,ji,hec,ai,je,ke,el,em,en,o,pi,kiu,ar,es,ti,yu,vi,dabel yu,eks,way,zed

zed

1. (Kent)alternative form ofsad

zed

1. alternative form ofseed(“seed”)

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*zidъ.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE)/ˈzɛd/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE)/ˈzɛt/

zed f

1. wall

• Czech:zeď

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “zed”, inSlovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague:Česká grafická společnost "unie",Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

FromMiddle Englishsoden,sode(“seethed”,past participle ofsethen), with the vowel taken from other forms of the verb.

• IPA^(key): /zɛd/

zed

1. stewed,sodden
   • 1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Zed met.

     Stewed meat.

zed

1. alternative form ofzide
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page104:

     Heazed mee cuck vlew in a aare.

     Hesaid my cock flew into the air.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page81 & 104

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