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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The letter z.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A former name of the letter Z.
  • noun See izard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) See izard.
  • noun The letter z; -- formerly so called.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Scotland an alternate pronunciation for the letter Z, similar to zed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably variant of Scots ezed, variant of zed.]

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  • sarra commented on the word izzard

    Not just a surname but an archaic name for the letter Z.

    Also a variant of izard.

    October 4, 2007

  • dontcry commented on the word izzard

    Eddie -- are you kidding? ;-)

    January 30, 2009

  • jmjarmstrong commented on the word izzard

    JM has just discovered that the ancient word for the letter Z is izzard.

    February 1, 2009

  • knitandpurl commented on the word izzard

    "Old Isaac Izard—his name is odd, isn't it? Mrs. Zimmermann thinks that it comes from izzard, which in some parts of England is the word for zed, which is the word the English use to identify the letter Z. I go along with Mrs. Zimmermann's theory because I can't think of a better one. And besides, she is a Z-lady, so she should know."

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    March 1, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the word izzard

    "2. from A to izzard, from beginning to end; completely."

    --The American College Dictionary

    April 13, 2011