ged
noun
any fish of the pike family.
ged
1 American
[ged]
/ gɛd /
Or
gedd
noun
Scot. and North England.
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ged,
plural
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geds
plural
GED
2
American
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general educational development.
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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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John Murray Cuddihy calls this jag ged meditation a "midrash."
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
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
This could be about as exciting as studying for your ged, but the results are actually kind of great.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You ged der goon und shoot, or der lion gom und preak von of der oxen’s pack.”
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
“I am a GED graduate,” Solange told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
But I worked hard to get my GED.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
The time guys normally spend learning in GED or college classes, or socializing and building community in prisoner-run workshops, is now wasted inside their cells gossiping and scheming.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 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
Not the pictures of us smiling together on her Cutlass or her cheesing with that GED Jay thought she’d never get.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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 Robert Burns
"When a cotton-buyer geds down, he stays," was all the explanation he ever gave us.
From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable
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 Marshall Mather
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 William Allan Neilson
Now safe the stately sawmont sail, And trouts bedropp'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's dead!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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