Standard Lemma guide

pee

name · noun · verb · 16 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈpiː/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: P
  • homophone: p
  • homophone: pea
  • rhymes with -iː
  • CMU ARPABET: P IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

Initialism of Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble (a North Korean orchestra).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Urine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An act of urination.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountable

Examples

  • He was dying for a pee.
  • I have to go for an urgent pee.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Pence; penny (a quantity of money)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ireland, UK, colloquial

Examples

  • I bought these carrots for fifty pee.
  • I can't afford that — I'm one pee short.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The bill of an anchor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: nautical, transport

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The sliding weight on a steelyard.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Alternative letter-case form of pee.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To urinate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, intransitive

Examples

  • The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.
  • The delivery driver took a minute to pee in the woods between houses.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To urinate.

To urinate on oneself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, intransitive, reflexive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To urinate.

To urinate in or on something, particularly clothing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, intransitive, transitive

Examples

  • I was so excited, I peed the bed!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To drizzle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, intransitive, mildly, vulgar

Examples

  • It's peeing with rain.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

informal terms for urination

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he took a pee

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: peeing, pissing, piss

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: micturition, urination

15

noun

Meaning 15

liquid excretory product

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • there was blood in his urine
  • the child had to make water

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: urine, piss, piddle, weewee, water

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product

16

verb

Meaning 16

eliminate urine

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass

Narrower terms: wet, stale

History

Etymology

Variant of Pea.

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.

See peak.

Across languages

Translations

216 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: shurrë — urine
  • Arabic: بَوْل (bawl) — urine
  • Arabic: شُخَّان (šuḵḵān) — urine
  • Arabic: بول (bōl) — urine
  • Armenian: մեզ (mez) — urine
  • Azerbaijani: sidik — urine
  • Azerbaijani: çiş — urine
  • Bashkir: һейҙек (heyźek) — urine
  • Bulgarian: пикня (piknja) — urine
  • Bulgarian: урина (urina) — urine
  • Bulgarian: пиш (piš) — urine
  • Burmese: သေး (se:) — urine
  • Chinese Cantonese: 小便 (siu2 bin6) — urine
  • Chinese Cantonese: 殊殊 — urine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小便 (xiǎobiàn) — urine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 尿泡 (niàopāo) — urine
  • Danish: pis — urine
  • Danish: tis — urine
  • Dutch: plas — urine
  • Estonian: piss — urine
  • Finnish: pissa — urine
  • Finnish: pisu — urine
  • Finnish: pissi — urine
  • French: pipi — urine
  • Georgian: შარდი (šardi) — urine
  • Georgian: ფსელი (pseli) — urine
  • Georgian: ფისი (pisi) — urine
  • German: Pipi — urine
  • Greek: κατουρλιό (katourlió) — urine
  • Greek: κάτουρο (kátouro) — urine
  • Greek: τσίσα (tsísa) — urine
  • Hebrew: שתן (sheten) — urine
  • Hungarian: pisi — urine
  • Icelandic: piss — urine
  • Irish: mún — urine
  • Japanese: おしっこ (o-shikko) — urine
  • Japanese: 小便 — urine
  • Japanese: しーしー (shīshī) — urine
  • Japanese: ちっち (chitchi) — urine
  • Khmer: នោម (noom) — urine
  • Latgalian: slapīņs — urine
  • Latvian: mīzali — urine
  • Macedonian: мочка (močka) — urine
  • Malay: kencing — urine
  • Marathi: सुसु (susu) — urine
  • Marathi: सू (sū) — urine
  • Norwegian: tiss — urine
  • Old English: miċġa — urine
  • Old English: miċġe — urine
  • Old English: migoþa — urine
  • Old English: hland — urine
  • Persian: جیش (jiš) — urine
  • Polish: siusiu — urine
  • Polish: siki — urine
  • Portuguese: chichi — urine
  • Portuguese: xixi — urine
  • Portuguese: pipi — urine
  • Romanian: pipi — urine
  • Russian: моча́ (močá) — urine
  • Russian: пипи́ (pipí) — urine
  • Inari-Sami: cissâ — urine
  • Northern Sami: cisˈsa — urine
  • Spanish: pis — urine
  • Spanish: pipí — urine
  • Spanish: pichí — urine
  • Spanish: chis — urine
  • Spanish: meado — urine
  • Spanish: pichi — urine
  • Spanish: pishada — urine
  • Spanish: pichín — urine
  • Spanish: chis — urine
  • Swedish: kiss — urine
  • Turkish: çiş — urine
  • Ottoman Turkish: سیدك (sidik) — urine
  • Urdu: شُوشُو (śūśū) — urine
  • Urdu: سُوسُو (sūsū) — urine
  • Vietnamese: nước đái — urine
  • Vietnamese: nước tiểu — urine
  • Welsh: pisiad — urine
  • Afrikaans: pee — name of the letter P, p
  • Arabic: بِيه (bīh) — name of the letter P, p
  • Arabic: پِي (pī) — name of the letter P, p
  • Arabic: بِي (bī) — name of the letter P, p
  • Asturian: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Bengali: পি (pi) — name of the letter P, p
  • Bulgarian: пе (pe) — name of the letter P, p
  • Burmese: ပီ (pi) — name of the letter P, p
  • Catalan: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Czech: pé — name of the letter P, p
  • Esperanto: po — name of the letter P, p
  • Faroese: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Finnish: pee — name of the letter P, p
  • French: pé — name of the letter P, p
  • Galician: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Greek: πι (pi) — name of the letter P, p
  • Hawaiian: pī — name of the letter P, p
  • Hindi: पी (pī) — name of the letter P, p
  • Hungarian: pé — name of the letter P, p
  • Icelandic: pé — name of the letter P, p
  • Ido: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Irish: pé — name of the letter P, p
  • Irish: peith — name of the letter P, p
  • Japanese: ピー (pī) — name of the letter P, p
  • Korean: 피 (pi) — name of the letter P, p
  • Latin: pē — name of the letter P, p
  • Macedonian: пе (pe) — name of the letter P, p
  • Malay: pi — name of the letter P, p
  • Marathi: पी (pī) — name of the letter P, p
  • Occitan: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Polish: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Portuguese: pê — name of the letter P, p
  • Russian: пи (pi) — name of the letter P, p
  • Russian: пэ (pɛ) — name of the letter P, p
  • Spanish: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Thai: พี (pii) — name of the letter P, p
  • Turkish: pe — name of the letter P, p
  • Vietnamese: pê — name of the letter P, p
  • Vietnamese: pờ — name of the letter P, p
  • Welsh: pi — name of the letter P, p
  • Arabic: بَوَّلَ (bawwala) — urinate
  • Arabic: شَخّ (šaḵḵ) — urinate
  • Armenian: միզել (mizel) — urinate
  • Armenian: չիշիկ անել (čʻišik anel) — urinate
  • Azerbaijani: işəmək — urinate
  • Azerbaijani: çiş eləmək — urinate
  • Azerbaijani: siymək — urinate
  • Bashkir: һейеү (heyew) — urinate
  • Bulgarian: пикая (pikaja) — urinate
  • Bulgarian: уринирам (uriniram) — urinate
  • Bulgarian: пишкам (piškam) — urinate
  • Burmese: သေးပေါက် (se:pauk) — urinate
  • Catalan: pixar — urinate
  • Chinese Cantonese: 小便 (siu2 bin6) — urinate
  • Chinese Cantonese: 屙尿 (o1 niu6) — urinate
  • Chinese Cantonese: 屙殊殊 (o1 syu4 syu2) — urinate
  • Chinese Cantonese: 殊殊 (syu4 syu2) — urinate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 撒尿 (sāniào) — urinate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 尿泡 (niàopāo) — urinate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小便 (xiǎobiàn) — urinate
  • Czech: čůrat — urinate
  • Danish: tisse — urinate
  • Danish: pisse — urinate
  • Dutch: plassen — urinate
  • Faroese: pissa — urinate
  • Finnish: pissata — urinate
  • Finnish: pisauttaa — urinate
  • French: faire pipi — urinate
  • French: uriner — urinate
  • Georgian: შარდვა (šardva) — urinate
  • Georgian: ფსმა (psma) — urinate
  • German: pinkeln — urinate
  • German: Pipi machen — urinate
  • German: pullern — urinate
  • Greek: κατουρώ (katouró) — urinate
  • Hebrew: השתין (hishtín) — urinate
  • Hungarian: pisil — urinate
  • Icelandic: pissa — urinate
  • Indonesian: kencing — urinate
  • Irish: déan mún — urinate
  • Japanese: おしっこをする (o-shikko o suru) — urinate
  • Japanese: 小便をする (shōben o suru) — urinate
  • Kazakh: сию (siü) — urinate
  • Latgalian: meizt — urinate
  • Latgalian: slapynuotīs — urinate
  • Latgalian: atvari — urinate
  • Latin: meiō — urinate
  • Latin: mingō — urinate
  • Latvian: mīzt — urinate
  • Latvian: čurāt — urinate
  • Macedonian: моча (moča) — urinate
  • Macedonian: мочка (močka) — urinate
  • Māori: mimi — urinate
  • Marathi: सू करणे (sū karṇe) — urinate
  • Marathi: सुसु करणे (susu karṇe) — urinate
  • Khiamniungan Naga: tsūi — urinate
  • Norwegian: tisse — urinate
  • Norwegian: pisse — urinate
  • Norwegian: urinere — urinate
  • Norwegian: late vannet — urinate
  • Occitan: pissar — urinate
  • Old English: mīgan — urinate
  • Polish: sikać — urinate
  • Polish: siusiać — urinate
  • Portuguese: fazer chichi — urinate
  • Portuguese: fazer xixi — urinate
  • Romanian: pișa — urinate
  • Romanian: face pipi — urinate
  • Romanian: urina — urinate
  • Russian: пи́сать (písatʹ) — urinate
  • Russian: мочи́ться (močítʹsja) — urinate
  • Russian: си́кать (síkatʹ) — urinate
  • Serbo-Croatian: piškiti — urinate
  • Serbo-Croatian: šorati — urinate
  • Slovene: lulati — urinate
  • Spanish: hacer pis — urinate
  • Spanish: mear — urinate
  • Spanish: hacer chichí — urinate
  • Spanish: hacer pipí — urinate
  • Spanish: hacer chis — urinate
  • Spanish: uixar — urinate
  • Spanish: pishar — urinate
  • Swahili: gura — urinate
  • Swedish: kissa — urinate
  • Swedish: pissa — urinate
  • Swedish: pinka — urinate
  • Swedish: nummer ett — urinate
  • Tagalog: pag-ihi — urinate
  • Tatar: сию (siyü) — urinate
  • Turkish: çiş yapmak — urinate
  • Turkish: işemek — urinate
  • Ottoman Turkish: سیمك (siymek) — urinate
  • Ukrainian: пі́сяти (písjaty) — urinate
  • Ukrainian: попі́сяти (popísjaty) — urinate
  • Vietnamese: đái — urinate
  • Vietnamese: tiểu — urinate
  • Walloon: fé pipisse — urinate