Noun: zed
Sample Sentences
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Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep. [2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 298:]
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zed-bar
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I'm going to go get some zeds.
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A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
Nouns inflected like zed
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from βῆτα (bêta), ἦτα (êta) and θῆτα (thêta). The letter had a rare usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê. See: Spanish Nouns '
zeta', German Nouns '
Zett', French Nouns '
zède', Italian Nouns '
zeta', Portuguese Nouns '
zê'.
Verbs referencing "zed"
German Nouns
Zett.