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
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
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
Nurtured by love: The classic approach to talent education. 2nd ed.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
"It would be a disaster for us environmentally," said Buckinghamshire independent councillor Ed Gemmell, who also leads the Climate Party.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is present and a diplomatic source confirmed the UK was among the countries which refused to participate in the picture.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
A few recycling ventures are betting that the quickest route to new rare-earth metals supplies goes through the junkyard, the Journal’s Ed Ballard writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
"The world's gone to crap. You know, there's wars, there's COVID, people are listening to Ed Sheeran more," Baron Cohen told AFP in character.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Annabelle almost doesn’t look at her phone, because she’s sure it’s Grandpa Ed, fuming mad, or Gina, or even Malcolm, with news that the GoFundMe is up from yesterday’s four hundred sixty bucks.
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
“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
Daniel Magson, CEO of Derby-based eating disorder charity First Steps ED, says Emma's experience reflects a trend it is increasingly alarmed by.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Vanessa, who had a stroke in 2024 and uses a wheelchair, said the experience meant she would no longer voluntarily go to an ED.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
A staggering 250,000 patients came through the ED every year.
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
If necessary, the syllable -ed is substituted for -d.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
“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
“What I liked about Fox were the people,” E.D.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2024
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 research “is telling us a lot more about the processes that drive retreat on Thwaites,” said one of the scientists, Peter E.D.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
The best-known spokesperson for those who disagree is E.D.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
After successively examining all the different systems of engines now in existence, and finding none which, in a plain form, was capable of fulfilling the conditions imposed, Mr. E.D.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various
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