Dee
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
Dee
- A river in 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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto XI, stanza 39:
- And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
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- A female given name, short for names beginning with D.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (2008) →ISBN
- His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (2008) →ISBN
- A surname of multiple origins.
Derived terms
Translations
river in Wales and England
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See also
Manx
Tagalog
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /di/
Proper noun
Dee
- A Filipino-Chinese surname, most notably borne by:
- Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer
Statistics
According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.
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