dd

¹

Law. today's date.

Origin of dd

¹

From the Latin word dē datō

dd

²

degree-day.
delayed delivery.
delivered.
demand draft.
double-deck.
Shipbuilding. dry dock.

DD

dear/darling daughter (used, especially by women, in digital communications to refer to one's daughter): DD moving into her own apt today!
designated driver.
dishonorable discharge.

D&D

Dungeons and Dragons.

dd.

delivered.

D.D.

demand draft.
Doctor of Divinity.

D/D

Commerce.

days after date.

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Examples from the Web for dd

Contemporary Examples of dd

Lucky Yates summed him up perfectly, with a DD reference, calling him “chaotic neutral.”
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed on the Big Twist and the End of ‘Vice’
Marlow Stern
April 22, 2014
And, yes, that DOES sound like the ramblings of a DD loving adolescent who just consumed his first pot brownie.
Beseech Your Children Well With Plot-Spoilers
Bill Schulz
March 27, 2014
Montag told the magazine that she hopes to downsize to a DD or a D, rather than fully remove her implants immediately.
Deflated!
Claire Howorth
August 25, 2010

Historical Examples of dd

DD grows politician, and longs to hear the peace is proclaimed.
The Journal to Stella
Jonathan Swift
I don't know why; but methinks she looks like one, and DD a sort of a Trimmer.
The Journal to Stella
Jonathan Swift
It becomes Ei dd, his father; Ei thd, her father; by nhd my father.
The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
E. Rameur
I have not met with an instance of his saying My tagh as he says My dd.
The Bbur-nma in English
Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
The point of the root is no longer at DD, however, but has moved on to F.
Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets
Various

British Dictionary definitions for dd

DD

abbreviation for

Also: dd direct debit
Doctor of Divinity

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Word Origin and History for dd

D.D.

abbreviation of Latin Divinitatis Doctor "Doctor of Divinity."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper