Tee

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː

From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T.).

Full definition of tee

Noun

1. Something shaped like the letter T. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed.angles and tees
2. T-shirt

Derived terms

• teevee

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon ("to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam"), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną ("to draw, lead, bring, pull, help"), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- ("to pull, lead"). Cognate with Eastern Frisian tja ("to pull, draw"), Low German teen ("to draw, pull"), German ziehen ("to draw, pull, drag"), Latin dūcō ("draw, pull, lead") and Albanian nduk ("to draw (out), pull up, pluck").

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.

Derived terms

• betee
• fortee

Related terms

• tow
• tug
• wanton

First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.

Noun

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (golf, baseball) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is hit.
3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Verb

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
• If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.

Synonyms

• tee up

Anagrams

• eet , EET