-ed

¹ American  

1. a suffix forming the past tense of weak verbs.

   he crossed the river.

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-ed ² American  

1. a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river ), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting from the action of the verb (inflated balloons ).

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-ed ³ American  

1. a suffix forming adjectives from nouns.

   bearded; monied; tender-hearted.

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ed ⁴ American  

[ed] / ɛd /

noun

Informal.

1. education.

   a course in driver's ed; adult ed.

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Ed ⁵ American  

[ed] / ɛd /

noun

1. a male given name, form of Edgar or Edward.

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ED ⁶ American  

1. Department of Education.

2. Pathology.  erectile dysfunction.

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ed. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

PLURAL

eds

PLURAL

eds

1. edited.

2. edition.

3. editor.

4. education.

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E.D. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

1. Eastern Department.

2. election district.

3. ex dividend.

4. executive director.

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ed. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. edited

2. edition

3. editor

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-ed ² British  

suffix

1. forming the past tense of most English verbs

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-ed ³ British  

suffix

1. forming the past participle of most English verbs

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-ed ⁴ British  

suffix

1. possessing or having the characteristics of

   salaried; red-blooded

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Etymology

Origin of -ed¹

Old English -de, -ede, -ode, -ade; origin disputed

Origin of -ed²

Old English -ed, -od, -ad; origin disputed

Origin of -ed³

Middle English; Old English -ede

Origin of ed⁴

By shortening

Example Sentences

“The strong will survive, so the ones who make really good EVs that are priced right, you’ll see them bounce back,” said Ed Loh, head of editorial with Motor Trends, in an interview with Fox Business at the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

Stoppard was married three times and had four sons, one of whom Ed Stoppard, is an actor.

From Barron's

Stoppard was married three times and had four sons, one of whom Ed Stoppard, an actor, performed in "Leopoldstadt".

From Barron's

By contrast, unexposed neighborhoods experienced a decline in monthly ED visits over the same period.

From Science Daily

The first four episodes of season five are "richly entertaining stuff with proper jeopardy and bags of emotion", wrote Ed Potton in a four-star review in the Times.

From BBC