• IPA: /diː/

dee (diz, present participle deein; past and past participle dyun)

1. (Northumbria) To do.

   What are ye deein man!

dee (plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin script letter D
2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   the pommel is furnished with dees.

3. (colloquial) Police detective.

   the dees are about.

• French: dé
• Portuguese: dê
• Russian: ди
• Spanish: de

• IPA: /diː/

1. A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. 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; {{...}

3. 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 9781409105404

     His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.

4. Surname of multiple origins.

• Russian: Ди