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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“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
FSD drives at least as well as Coach Vestal, my high-school driver’s ed teacher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
And I’m like, ‘Jamie, what are you talking about? I’m a special ed kid.’
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
“You’re going to have to earn the money for your driver’s ed class next year,” Dad said.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
Any citizen who steps out of line risks the ire of an even dumber police force, riding around in cruisers that lift their design language from Ed Hardy clothing.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the Massachusetts Senate primary on Tuesday, 80-year-old Sen. Ed Markey, who was first sent to Washington the year Jimmy Carter won the presidency, handily defeated a primary challenge from Rep. Seth Moulton.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
If the value of the account tanks, the tax on withdrawals will be lower as well, says Ed Slott, a CPA who is an IRA specialist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The BBC's Ed Thomas has travelled to the Grangetown area of the city, which, along with the South Bank area, has been the focus of a large police operation into organised crime following the tragedy.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Maybe she’s losing her mind, but she swears he makes a fake crackle, same as Grandpa Ed.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
It outlines monthly ED attendance times, performance against the DoH emergency care waiting time target for EDs, and key patient journey milestones including time to triage and start of treatment.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
The ED has alleged that the company received more than $666,000 in foreign remittances between 2021 and 2025 under the "garb" of consultancy fees.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
The moment we turned off on Good Hope Road, I noticed old posters still pasted to an abandoned building at the crossroads: “SAVE ED BOROUGH! It’s community! It’s home!”
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
"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
Shock′-head, -ed, having a thick and bushy head of hair.
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
That’s when the town was renamed from Nordhoff to Ojai and local leader E.D.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
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
Then there is the knowledge-centered schooling: a common curriculum rich in knowledge about the world, as authenticated by E.D.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
“There is nothing in his doctrine,” Sir E.D.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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