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Z en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /zi/ (US)
  • /zɛd/ (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK)
  • /(j)ɪˈzɛd/ (Guangdong, Hong-Kong)
  • /(j)iˈzɛd/ (Guangdong, Hong-Kong)
  • /(i)ˈzeɖ/ (South-Asia)

Meanings

  1. A member of Generation Z.
    • The current global pandemic is almost certainly a formative moment for younger Millennials and Zs as they navigate through similar challenges. 2022, Morgen Witzel, editor, Post-Pandemic Leadership: Exploring Solutions to a Crisis, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • Take that a step further for Millennials and Zs by crafting an e-mail subject header that does the same but with even fewer characters; […] 2017, Martha M. Ellis, Linda Garcia, Generation X Presidents Leading Community Colleges: New Challenges, New Leaders, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 10:
    • The current progressive movement—and certainly the Millennials and Zs—understand that the Hyde Amendment is discriminatory […] 2020, Zerlina Maxwell, The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Books, →ISBN:
  2. (slang) Z-drug.
    • I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse Cook that coca into crack I was selling Zs while you was in your bed 2013, Snap Capone, “Lights Out”, in The Memoir, from 0:16:

Forms

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Z's Number=Plur lexicographic
Zs Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

Zed

Synonyms

Generation Zer · zoomer · Zer · Generation Z · Gen Z · Gen-Zer

Source: en.wiktionary, “Z” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Z en · SYM

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • (US) audio
  • (UK) audio
  • /zi/ (US)
  • /zɛd/ (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK)
  • /(j)ɪˈzɛd/ (Guangdong, Hong-Kong)
  • /(j)iˈzɛd/ (Guangdong, Hong-Kong)
  • /(i)ˈzeɖ/ (South-Asia)

Meanings

  1. (letter, uppercase) The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed or zee and written in the Latin script.

Forms

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z lowercase lexicographic
Zs Number=Plur lexicographic
Z's Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Z-bar · Z twist · Z-car · Z section · Z-bed · Z-bend · Z-track · Z-drug · Z-movie · Z-boson · Z-list · Z-shaped · Z-pak · Z car · A to Z · Z chromosome · Z-plasty