• (letter name) IPA: /diː/
• (phoneme) IPA: /d/
• (phoneme) IPA: /d/

1. Letter of the English alphabet

1. Abbreviation of died#English|died (or death)

   William Shakespeare, d 1616

1. (cricket) Abbreviation of declare#English|declared.

   Synonyms: dec

1. (crosswords) Abbreviation of down#English|down.

   Do you have the answer for 23d?

• Letter name: IPA: /diː/
• Phoneme: IPA: /d/

1. Letter of the English alphabet
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

1. defense.
2. (US, politics) Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.

   D-New York

3. (automotive) drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
4. (printing) duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
5. (euphemism) dick; penis.

   She wants the D!

6. (electronics) data.
7. (Unicode) canonical decomposition
8. (music) Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.

   Symphony No. 4 Tragic D 417

   Coordinate term: Köchel number#English|Köchel number

1. down (direction).

1. divorced.

1. (with “The”) The City of Detroit.

1. (euphemism) Damn
   • 1878, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, "I am the Captain of the Pinafore", H.M.S. Pinafore

     CAPTAIN. I never use a big, big D— ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. No, never! ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. Hardly ever! ALL. Hardly ever swears a big, big D—

d (plural ds)

1. (snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
2. (football) The penalty arc on a football pitch.

d (plural ds)

1. (education, chiefly, North America) A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.

1. (computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.