ed
noun
education.
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ed
1 American
[ed]
/ ɛd /
noun
Informal.
Ed
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American
[ed]
/ ɛd /
noun
ED
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American
-ed
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American
-ed
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American
-ed
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American
ed.
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American
abbreviation
eds
plural, plural
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edited.
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edition.
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editor.
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education.
E.D.
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American
abbreviation
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Eastern Department.
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election district.
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ex dividend.
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executive director.
ed.
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British
abbreviation
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edited
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edition
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editor
-ed
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British
suffix
-ed
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British
suffix
-ed
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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
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
Many schools referred only obliquely to the newly confrontational relationship between the federal government and higher ed in commentary accompanying their investment returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
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
His father, Ed, portrayed Bill Bauer on the daytime drama “Guiding Light” for years, while his mother, Dorothy, was known for her role on the hospital soap “The Doctors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Burnham has twice before run to become the Labour leader, in 2010 and 2015 - losing to Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn respectively.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But Ed Desser, a sports-media executive who spent two decades at the NBA, looks to the Women’s National Basketball Association for inspiration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey described Widdecombe as "a woman of deep faith who devoted her life to public service. The idea that she could have been murdered is truly horrifying".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
As she turns down the road to the colony, though, they aren’t who she sees first, and neither is Grandpa Ed.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
At one stage he ended up in a hospital ED as he could not keep any food down and was referred for tests.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
“The more anxiety there is in the college admissions process, the more desire there is to alleviate the pain early—and that’s what these ED systems do,” Beaton said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Vanessa, who is a mother and grandmother, said she would not voluntarily go back to an ED unless she was unconscious and left with no other choice.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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
He went to the ED and changed the rules.
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 same way that the suffix -ed indicates that you’re speaking about the past, shows “basic empathy” between texters, McWhorter argues.
From Slate ● May 2, 2013
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
Octoradiate, -d, ok-tō-rā′di-āt, -ed, adj. having eight rays.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 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
In addition, I would like to see CPR/AED training offered as part of science, health, or physical ed. classes in high school.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2016
Quentin, his B’s in phys. ed. catching up with him, was the salutatorian, tied with Billy.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
That’s when the town was renamed from Nordhoff to Ojai and local leader E.D.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
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
The research “is telling us a lot more about the processes that drive retreat on Thwaites,” said one of the scientists, Peter E.D.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
The following Writers, among others, are preparing volumes for this Series:— Prof. E.D.
From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard
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