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hed

hed noun: the headline of a news story. Also the archaic spelling of head.

Noun

hed (plural heds)

  1. (slang) The headline of a news story.

Adjective capitalized: HED

HED (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of howardite, eucrite, diogenite (“pertaining to howarditic/eucritic/diogenitic material”).

Also used as

hed is also the archaic spelling of head.

hed is also the pronunciation spelling of had.

hed is also the simple past and past participle of heed.

Forms of hed

pluralheds

Origin of hed

Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.

Altered spelling of had.

See heed.

Words formed from hed

  • HED meteorite

Questions about hed

What does hed mean?
Hed means the headline of a news story.
What part of speech is hed?
Hed can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of hed?
The plural of hed is heds.

Words near hed in the dictionary

  1. hectowatt
  2. hectowatt-hour
  3. hectowatt-hours
  4. hectowatts
  5. Hecuba
  6. hed
  7. hedamycin
  8. hedarim
  9. Hedbavny
  10. Hedberg
  11. Hedbergs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hed (page history and authors); HED (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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