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  • //diː//
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The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

    Rupert. I am told so, sir. But then so does the other Cadell. A devastating creature who spells it with two d’s.

Etymology

From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.

numeral

  1. 1

    The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of dimensionalAbbreviation of dimensional.

  2. 2

    Variant of declaredAbbreviation of declared.

Etymology

Abbreviations. * (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin. * (dice): abbreviation of dice d # Abbreviation of died or death. #: William Shakespeare, d 1616

adverb

  1. 1

    Variant of downAbbreviation of down.

    Do you have the answer for 23d?

  2. 2

    Variant of alreadyinformalAbbreviation of already, used in text messages to form the perfect tenses.

    Come d.

    Done d.

symbol

  1. 1

    A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).

    £sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”

  2. 2

    Die or dice.

    d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides

    2d6 — the sum of the roll of two six-sided dice

  3. 3

    A penny, a measure of the size of nails.

article

  1. 1

    Variant of thePronunciation spelling of the

    that cavalier expression i see/on people's mugs don't keep/d pie from hitting dey faces

Forms

plural
ds, d's
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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