Dee

See also dee

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

Dee

1. (geography) A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. (geography) A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
3. A female given name, short for names beginning with a "D".

Quotations

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: IV: xi: 39:

  And following Dee, which Britons long ygone

  Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend;

See also

• Wikipedia article on Dee, linking to famous people with this surname and the name of various rivers

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Manx

Proper noun

Dee f.

1. A female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century.