Definition of "Dee"

Dee

/diː/

proper noun
1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
  Quotations
  And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 39
3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
5. A female given name, short for names beginning with D.
  Quotations
  His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
  1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008
6. A surname of multiple origins.