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ZU
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• ZU (noun)
The noun ZU has 1 sense:
1. evil storm god represented as a black bird
Familiarity information: ZU used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evil storm god represented as a black bird
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Zu; Zubird
Instance hypernyms:
Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)
Domain region:
Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)
Context examples
It was I also who saved from murder, by the Nihilist Klopman, Count Von und Zu Grafenstein, who was your mother’s elder brother.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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