d

A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).

Adjective

  1. Abbreviation of dimensional.

    Related: D

  2. Abbreviation of declared.

    Synonyms: dec

Origin

Abbreviations. * (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin. * (dice): abbreviation of dice d # Abbreviation of died or death. #: William Shakespeare, d 1616

Derived

0d 1d 2d 3d

Adverb

  1. Abbreviation of down.
    • Do you have the answer for 23d?
  2. Abbreviation of already, used in text messages to form the perfect tenses.
    • Come d.
    • Done d.

Article

  1. Pronunciation spelling of the
    • that cavalier expression i see/on people's mugs don't keep/d pie from hitting dey faces - 1988 February 14, Catherine Joseph, “First Life Jitters”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 7:

Character

  1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
    • Rupert. I am told so, sir. But then so does the other Cadell. A devastating creature who spells it with two d’s. - 1929, Patrick Hamilton, Rope, New York City: Samuel French, Act I, page 30:

Origin

From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.

Forms

D ds d's

Derived

abecedism alpha-d-galactosidase d-amphetamine d-beat d-block d flat d-flat d-hole d-man d-note d-pad d-sharp d sharp d-word k-d tree small-d democrat small d democrat

Numeral

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

Forms

D ds d's

Symbol

  1. A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).
    • £sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”
  2. Die or dice.
    • d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides
    • 2d6 — the sum of the roll of two six-sided dice
  3. A penny, a measure of the size of nails.