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.
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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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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
So first, let’s tease apart the American higher ed model, it’s a weird hybrid of the German Research Institute and the Oxford-Cambridge English Residential Training College.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
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
Inside, the community center sounds like the gymnasium during girls’ phys ed.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
Ed Yardeni, economist and president of Yardeni Research, appeared broadly unfazed by Thursday’s pullback.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ed Lee is an Orlando-based endocrinologist who is hopeful for compounding approvals, especially for BPC-157, which is popular in the wellness community for its purported ability to repair tissues, including muscles and ligaments.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mamdani touted his work under former Mayor Ed Koch helping build affordable housing, as well as his later work raising the minimum wage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
A stage at Reading Festival which previously hosted up-and-coming musicians including Ed Sheeran and Florence + the Machine has been axed.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
She learned this trick from Grandpa Ed, who always makes her put the extra rolls in her purse when they go out to eat.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
“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
"I was one of the younger ones in the ED but being disabled was agony as I sat in this wheelchair for almost 12 hours before they moved me onto a trolley."
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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
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 meantime, when a child wants to change a verb from present to past tense, he’ll likely apply the grammar rules he has learned for regular verbs, which involve adding -ed to the end.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2016
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
Multituberculate, -d, mul-ti-tū-ber′kū-lāt, -ed, adj. having many tubercles, as teeth.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 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
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
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
Maugh is survived by his wife and sons Thomas H. Maugh III, Theodore E.D.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
All these works were constructed under the direction of competent engineers, the chief of whom was Captain E.D.
From Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South by Stevenson, William G.
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