Ed Definition

ĕd
noun
Education.
Drivers ed, sex-ed classes.
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(titular) Abbreviation of Editor.

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Synonyms:
abbreviation
Effective dose.
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Edited (by)
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Election district.
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Edition.
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Editor.
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suffix
Used to form the past tense of regular verbs.
Tasted.
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Used to form the past participle of regular verbs.
Absorbed.
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Having; characterized by; resembling.
Redheaded; strong-minded.
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affix
Forming the past tense of weak verbs.
Walked, wanted.
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Forming the past participle of weak verbs.
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Forming analogous adjectives from nouns and verbs and from adjectives ending in -ate.
Cultured people, measured cadences; echinated.
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That is provided with or characterized by.
Bearded, diseased.
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pronoun

A diminutive of Edward, Edgar, Edwin, or other male given names beginning with Ed-.

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Abbreviation of Edinburgh.

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prefix
(obsolete, no longer productive) A prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.
Eddish, eddy, edgrow, edgrowth, ednew, edquicken.
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Other Word Forms of Ed

Noun

Singular:
ed
Plural:
EdD, eds

Origin of Ed

  • From Middle English ed-, from Old English ed- (“again, re-”), from Proto-Germanic *idi-, *idi, *ida (“back, backwards, again”), from Proto-Indo-European *et, *at (“and, but”). Cognate with German dialectal it- (“again, back”), Icelandic ið- (“again, back”), Gothic [script?] (id-, “again, back”), Welsh ad-, ed- (“again, back”), Latin et (“and”), Latin at (“but, moreover”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English -ede from Old English -ade, -ede, -ode

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English -ede, -de from Old English -ed, -od

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English -ad, -ed, -od

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition