dd1
- Law. today's date.
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Origin of dd1
From the Latin word dē datō
dd2
- degree-day.
- delayed delivery.
- delivered.
- demand draft.
- double-deck.
- Shipbuilding. dry dock.
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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.
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D&D
- Dungeons and Dragons.
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dd.
- delivered.
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D.D.
- demand draft.
- Doctor of Divinity.
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D/D
- days after date.
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Examples from the Web for dd
Contemporary Examples
Lucky Yates summed him up perfectly, with a DD reference, calling him “chaotic neutral.”
And, yes, that DOES sound like the ramblings of a DD loving adolescent who just consumed his first pot brownie.
Montag told the magazine that she hopes to downsize to a DD or a D, rather than fully remove her implants immediately.
Historical Examples
DD grows politician, and longs to hear the peace is proclaimed.
The Journal to StellaJonathan Swift
I don't know why; but methinks she looks like one, and DD a sort of a Trimmer.
The Journal to StellaJonathan Swift
It becomes Ei dd, his father; Ei thd, her father; by nhd my father.
I have not met with an instance of his saying My tagh as he says My dd.
The Bbur-nma in EnglishBabur, Emperor of Hindustan
The point of the root is no longer at DD, however, but has moved on to F.
DD
- 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."
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