ged
noun
any fish of the pike family.
ged
1 American
[ged]
/ gɛd /
Or
gedd
noun
Scot. and North England.
ged,
plural
geds
plural
GED
2
American
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general educational development.
-
general equivalency diploma.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ged
First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English gedde, from Old Norse gedda “pike”
Example Sentences
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Wenders says he plans to return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hadn't they heard that the rug ged Baltimore defense, which held three teams scoreless in regular season play, made a specialty of manhandling up pity quarterbacks?
From Time Magazine Archive
John Murray Cuddihy calls this jag ged meditation a "midrash."
From Time Magazine Archive
This could be about as exciting as studying for your ged, but the results are actually kind of great.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shoomp ub dere, zome of you und ged de sholly-boad oud of dad!”
From The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Collingwood, Harry
One day this season, I overheard some of the GED students inside our school building tell the prison’s acting educational supervisor, Nicole Cooke, that they didn’t have anything to be grateful for during the holidays.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
But I worked hard to get my GED.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
He earned his GED,, external and learned to be a carpenter and bricklayer, but in a pivotal moment for his life, he was introduced to boxing by a coach called Doc Broadus.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025
When I remarried in 2004, I was a single mother with a GED and a failed college course or two under my belt.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024
Maybe I should drop out of school and get my GED after we get a place.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
"When a cotton-buyer geds down, he stays," was all the explanation he ever gave us.
From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington
Now safe the stately sawmont sail, And trouts be-dropp’d wi’ crimson hail, And eels weel ken’d for souple tail, And geds for greed, Since dark in death’s fish-creel we wail Tam Samson dead.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Now safe the stately sawmont sail, salmon And trouts bedropp'd wi' crimson hail, And eels weel kent for souple tail, And geds for greed, pikes Since dark in Death's fish-creel we wail Tam Samson's dead!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
Veek days he geds down to beesness at eight o'clock—at ten o'glock he has coffee and den in a leetle vile he goes home and eats lonch.
From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)
Leet it, Lord, and dunnot put it aat till he geds through to wheere they've no need o' candles, becose Thaa gies them th' leet o' Thysel.’
From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Mather, Marshall
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