ed
noun
education.
ed
1 American
[ed]
/ ɛd /
noun
Informal.
Ed
2
American
[ed]
/ ɛd /
noun
ED
3
American
-ed
4
American
-ed
5
American
-ed
6
American
ed.
7
American
abbreviation
eds
plural, plural
-
edited.
-
edition.
-
editor.
-
education.
E.D.
8
American
abbreviation
-
Eastern Department.
-
election district.
-
ex dividend.
-
executive director.
ed.
1
British
abbreviation
-
edited
-
edition
-
editor
-ed
2
British
suffix
-ed
3
British
suffix
-ed
4
British
suffix
Etymology
Origin of ed1
By shortening
Origin of -ed4
Old English -de, -ede, -ode, -ade; origin disputed
Origin of -ed5
Old English -ed, -od, -ad; origin disputed
Origin of -ed6
Middle English; Old English -ede
Example Sentences
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In higher ed, Friedman says, the argument for restriction or outright removal of educational materials is still nominally about protection.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
So first, let’s tease apart the American higher ed model, it’s a weird hybrid of the German Research Institute and the Oxford-Cambridge English Residential Training College.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Report ed new U.S. rules may require government permission for nearly all overseas sales of AI chips, impacting companies like Nvidia and AMD.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
Data provided by technology company Glass.AI estimated that 1,203 ed tech companies were operating in England in 2025, up from 1,017 in 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
The building is bigger, too, and there are lots of different wings—the sixth-grade wing, the seventh-grade wing, the eighth-grade wing, the arts wing, the phys ed wing.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who has pushed for social care reform, said on Saturday: "This has to be the start of a real effort to end the social care catastrophe."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Ed Yardeni, economist and president of Yardeni Research, appeared broadly unfazed by Thursday’s pullback.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ed Lee is an Orlando-based endocrinologist who is hopeful for compounding approvals, especially for BPC-157, which is popular in the wellness community for its purported ability to repair tissues, including muscles and ligaments.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
They hired Ed Ladou, the former pizza chef of Wolfgang Puck’s Beverly Hills restaurant Spago, to create California-style pizza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Grandpa Ed was wrong about the wine and sleep—she was awake all night.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
The Communication Workers Union agreed for Royal Mail to be bought by a Czech billionaire last April, with the new owners the ED Group promising to "put employees and customers at the heart of everything".
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
When declaring the critical incident on Tuesday, hospital officials pleaded with people to only attend the ED in an emergency.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
The ED said Singh had been detained by the Uttar Pradesh state excise department in connection with the seizure of liquor exceeding permissible limits.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
By contrast, unexposed neighborhoods experienced a decline in monthly ED visits over the same period.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025
A staggering 250,000 patients came through the ED every year.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
"It works as a visual token to remind us that, that word with -ed on the end, no matter how you're going to say it, puts that word into the past tense," Daryl said.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
In the meantime, when a child wants to change a verb from present to past tense, he’ll likely apply the grammar rules he has learned for regular verbs, which involve adding -ed to the end.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2016
Instead of having a literal meaning, it does something — conveying an attitude — just like the -ed ending conveys past tense rather than “meaning” anything. , of all things, is grammar.
From Time ● Apr. 25, 2013
They've kaizen-ed and -ed and -ed the jobs.
From BusinessWeek ● May 5, 2011
Tricornute, -d, trī-kor′nūt, -ed, adj. having three horn-like processes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
“I went to Catholic school, so we didn’t really have sex ed. The only way you learned anything was in anatomy class,” Roers said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
In The Dialogues of Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, 3rd ed., vol 3.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
He has managed to find innovative ways to teach phy. ed., a class that many might think couldn’t be easily adapted to technology.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2020
Maiden Noir: Designed in Seattle and made in Japan, Nin Truong’s monochromatic drawstring pants, sweatshirts and shorts are appropriate for the upper echelons of an urban phys. ed. class.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2017
Quentin, his B’s in phys. ed. catching up with him, was the salutatorian, tied with Billy.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
You can learn more about the evolution of Fox & Friends, and hear directly from E.D.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2024
For adults, regardless of age, vaccination reduced the risk of E.D. urgent care visits by almost half and reduced the risk of hospitalization by slightly more than a third.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2024
When this patient came to the E.D., he was often given intravenous fluids to try to fill up a suspected empty tank.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
The best-known spokesperson for those who disagree is E.D.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
See, too, for mention of "hundreds of tortoises" falling "from the overhanging branches, and thick underwood," into the waters of the Mender, Travels, etc., by E.D.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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