Meaning and Origin
What does the name Tee mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Indiana, U.S. says the name Tee is of Thai origin and means "Water".
- According to a user from Nigeria, the name Tee is of African origin and means "Elder".
Etymology: Cf. Icel. tjā to show, mark
- A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.
- The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T.
- A short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground
- Support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff
- The starting place for each hole on a golf course ("they were waiting on the first tee")
- Connect with a tee ("tee two pipes")
- Place on a tee ("tee golf balls")
From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
- The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
- Something shaped like the letter T. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed, tee pipe fitting (T-splitter), tee computing command...
- angles and tees
- T-shirt
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 Saterland 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”).
First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.
- (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
- (golf, baseball) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is hit.
- (curling) The target area of a curling rink
- The mark at which players aim in quoits.
tee was also found in the following language(s): Estonian, Finnish, Old Irish, Tetum, Tiri, Votic, and Võro