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
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
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
“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
Senate, two-term Sen. Ed Markey, an 80-year-old progressive, easily dispatched the more moderate Rep. Seth Moulton, 47.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
“This raises more uncertainties” for companies looking to invest in Venezuela, said Ed Chow, a former Chevron executive and nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
A summer holiday to the south of France scuppered Sir Ed Davey's attempt to give blood to the NHS.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
AI images appeared of supermarket cases stocked with packages of “Mr. Ed Imported Beef.”
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
At least, she tries to call Grandpa Ed, but her phone has no service.
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
"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
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
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
Edentate, -d, e-den′tāt, -ed, adj. without teeth: wanting front teeth—also Eden′tal.—ns.
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
The patient was given intravenous immunoglobulin while he was still in 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
Maugh is survived by his wife and sons Thomas H. Maugh III, Theodore E.D.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
By command of the General of the Army: E.D.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
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