D

The City of Detroit.

Adjective

  1. Abbreviation of dimensional.

    Related: d

  2. Abbreviation of divorced.

Origin

Abbreviations.

Derived

0D 10D chess 11D chess 12D chess 1D 2.5D 2D 3D 4D 5D chess 6D chess 7D chess 8D chess 9D chess

Adverb

  1. Abbreviation of down (direction).

Character

  1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
    • Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […] - 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur...

Origin

From Old English D, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ (d, “daeg”).

Forms

d Ds D's

Interjection

  1. Damn.
    • 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— - 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I...

Proper noun Entry 5

  1. The City of Detroit.
  2. Abbreviation of Deuteronomist.

Proper noun computer languages, computing

  1. A programming language inspired from C++.

Origin

From the position (4) of the letter D in the English alphabet.

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Abbreviation of defense.
  2. Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.
    • D-New York
    • “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday. - 2021 November 5,...

    Antonyms: R

  3. Abbreviation of drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.

    Coordinate Terms: P R N D second gear first gear

  4. Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
  5. Clipping of dick (“penis”)
    • She wants the D!
    • I give her the D, I give her the D, she callin' me zaddy - 2016, “Zaddy”, in Campaign, performed by Ty Dolla $ign:
  6. Abbreviation of data.
  7. Canonical decomposition
  8. Abbreviation of Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.
    • Symphony No. 4 Tragic D 417

    Coordinate Terms: K

  9. Alternative form of dee (“a police detective”).
    • Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah) If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper - 2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A:

Forms

Ds

Related

C KC KD NF

Derived

2,4-D D layer D-list D-Mart double D D region D-value NFD Pro-D

Noun ball games, games

  1. The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
  2. The penalty arc on a football pitch.
    • Johnson, a late substitute, applied the finishing touch but it was move kickstarted by the again-impressive Neco Williams, who skedaddled forward from halfway with the ball in tow before feeding Aaron Ramsey on the edge...
    • 23 min: Fee gets overly intricate near his own D, and gifts the ball to Eze, who attempts a curler towards the top-left corner but gets it all wrong. - 2025 November 8, Scott Murray, “Sunderland v Arsenal: Premier...
  3. The penalty arc on a hockey field.

Origin

From the shape of the upper case letter "D".

Forms

Ds

Noun education

  1. 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.

Forms

Ds

Numeral

  1. The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Forms

d Ds D's