Associations to the word «Zed»

Wiktionary

ZED, noun. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
ZED, noun. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.
ZED, noun. (colloquial) (usually plural) Sleep (as in "get some zeds").
ZED, verb. (intransitive) (informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
ZED, verb. (intransitive) (rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

Dictionary definition

ZED, noun. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats