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Dee
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dee"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
Dee
- A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
- A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:
- And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
- A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
- A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
- A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
- A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
- His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
- A surname of multiple origins.
Derived terms
Related terms
- Ardee (Ireland)
Translations
river in Wales and England
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.
Noun
Dee (plural Dees)
- Alternative letter-case form of dee.
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Latin
Noun
Dee
Manx
Proper noun
Dee f
- a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Tagalog
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