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  ed

  noun

  education.
• Ed
  Ed

  noun

  a male given name, form of Edgar or Edward.
• ED
  ED

  Department of Education.
• -ed
  -ed

  a suffix forming the past tense of weak verbs.
• ed.
  ed.

  abbreviation

  edited.
• E.D.
  E.D.

  abbreviation

  Eastern Department.

ed

¹ American  

[ed] / ɛd /

noun

Informal.

1. education.

   a course in driver's ed; adult ed.

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Ed ² American  

[ed] / ɛd /

noun

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

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ED ³ American  

1. Department of Education.

2. Pathology. erectile dysfunction.

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-ed ⁴ American  

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

   he crossed the river.

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-ed ⁵ 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 ⁶ American  

1. a suffix forming adjectives from nouns.

   bearded; monied; tender-hearted.

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ed. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

• eds
  plural,  plural

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

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ed Ed ED -ed ed. E.D.

“You’re talking about a group that doesn’t have driver’s ed training, doesn’t know the rules of the road,” Scheafer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

For all of the vicious debates over sex ed in the ’90 and 2000s, those pushing abstinence and those promoting comprehensive health education could largely agree on one thing: We wanted teen pregnancies to decrease.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

So, starting back with Mrs. Howard was okay with me because I had friends in special ed too.

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos

“Speed comes from precision,” said Ed McLaughlin, Mastercard’s president and chief technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who used to be the energy secretary, has long been vocal about what he sees as the need to move away from fossil fuels.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

In the years since, the San Bernardino County venue has attracted crowds by booking high-caliber acts like the Smashing Pumpkins, Mariah Carey, the Killers, Ed Sheeran and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“The pressure is on,” said Ed Al-Hussainy, portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“This panhandle feels like a shortcut through an entire state,” she says to Grandpa Ed.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Robbie Butler, who visited the Londonderry hospital on Wednesday, said a new ED would be "incredibly high on the project list if the money becomes available".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

A new ED is one of two Western Health and Social Care Trust priority capital projects and has an estimated cost of around £73m.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Consolidated Edison ED 0.58%increase; up pointing triangle reported higher profit in its second quarter, as revenue rose, helped by electric sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

He took Goldman’s algorithm, presented it to the doctors in the Cook County ED and the doctors in the Department of Medicine, and announced that he was holding a bake-off.

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

When, however, the original word ends in -d or -t, as slight or brand, then, and then only is there the real addition of the syllable -ed; as in slighted, branded.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

“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

“What I liked about Fox were the people,” 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

Fishman described what she found and went over the test results from the E.D.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

The best-known spokesperson for those who disagree is E.D.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

For goods and cost in 1728 see a bill quoted by E.D.

From The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Frederick Jackson Turner

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