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• ed
  ed

  noun

  education.
• Ed
  Ed

  noun

  a male given name, form of Edgar or Edward.
• ED
  ED

  Department of Education.
• -ed
  -ed

  a suffix forming the past tense of weak verbs.
• ed.
  ed.

  abbreviation

  edited.
• E.D.
  E.D.

  abbreviation

  Eastern Department.

ed

¹ American  

[ed] / ɛd /

noun

Informal.

1. education.

   a course in driver's ed; adult ed.

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Ed ² American  

[ed] / ɛd /

noun

1. a male given name, form of Edgar or Edward.

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ED ³ American  

1. Department of Education.

2. Pathology. erectile dysfunction.

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-ed ⁴ American  

1. a suffix forming the past tense of weak verbs.

   he crossed the river.

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-ed ⁵ American  

1. a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river ), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting from the action of the verb (inflated balloons ).

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-ed ⁶ American  

1. a suffix forming adjectives from nouns.

   bearded; monied; tender-hearted.

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ed. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

• eds
  plural,  plural

1. edited.

2. edition.

3. editor.

4. education.

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E.D. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

1. Eastern Department.

2. election district.

3. ex dividend.

4. executive director.

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ed. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. edited

2. edition

3. editor

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-ed ² British  

suffix

1. forming the past tense of most English verbs

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-ed ³ British  

suffix

1. forming the past participle of most English verbs

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-ed ⁴ British  

suffix

1. possessing or having the characteristics of

   salaried; red-blooded

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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

See Examples For:

ed Ed ED -ed ed. E.D.

“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

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

Or was it like he was in special ed, because if that was what albino meant, then people probably thought I was albino too.

From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds

Plus, his music sucks, and most people would find it impossible that useful public discourse would ever emerge from an Ed Sheeran concert.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

Ed Sheeran has posted a long statement on Instagram, saying it was not his decision to drop Macklemore from his current US tour.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Grammy winner Macklemore, facing pressure to drop from Ed Sheeran’s tour, says ‘my message is for peace, love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect and equality.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Appeared in the September 15, 2026, print edition as 'Higher Ed Will Soon Get Patriotic'.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Grandpa Ed holds Dawn Celeste’s hand and kisses her cheek.

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

The study suggested there was one extra death for every 82 patients who spent more than six to eight hours in an ED before being transferred to a hospital bed.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

The Communication Workers Union agreed for Royal Mail to be bought by a Czech billionaire last April, with the new owners the ED Group promising to "put employees and customers at the heart of everything".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

The ED said Singh had been detained by the Uttar Pradesh state excise department in connection with the seizure of liquor exceeding permissible limits.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 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 same way that the suffix -ed indicates that you’re speaking about the past, shows “basic empathy” between texters, McWhorter argues.

From Slate ● May 2, 2013

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

I. In the first there is the simple addition of -d, -t, or -ed.

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

That’s when the town was renamed from Nordhoff to Ojai and local leader E.D.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

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

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

Much of the success of this enterprise is due to Livingstone's old comrade, Mr. E.D.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie