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Z
Z (z&emac;; in England commonly, and in America sometimes, z&ecr;d; formerly, also, &icr;z"z&ecr;rd) Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. , L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 273, 274.
The noun Z has 2 senses
1. Z, letter_z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard -- the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" 2. omega, Z -- the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation
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