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qd.

qd. is the alternative form of q.v..

qd. is the abbreviation of quod.

Meaning of q.v.

Adverb (1)

q.v. (not comparable)

  1. quod vide; which see (advises the reader to look up a mentioned text for further information).
    • This is described in more detail in Brown’s book on the subject (q.v.).

Adverb (2)

q.v. (not comparable)

  1. as much as you wish

Meaning of quod

Verb (1)

quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)

  1. (archaic, slang) To confine in prison.
    • An intelligent costermonger, who was with me when I saw the two brothers, told me that “a costermonger would rather be thought to have come out of prison than out of a workhouse,” for his “mates” would say, if they heard he had been locked up, “O, he’s only been quodded for pitching into a crusher.”1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Verb (2)

quod

  1. (obsolete) Quoth.
    • “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”1563, John Foxe, “Actes and Monuments”, in The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, published 1868, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422

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Questions about qd.

What is qd. the alternative form of?
Qd. is the alternative form of q.v..

Words near qd. in the dictionary

  1. Qcumbers
  2. QCUs
  3. QD
  4. QD-OLED
  5. QD-OLEDs
  6. qd.
  7. QDA
  8. QDII
  9. QDIIs
  10. QDR
  11. QDRO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: qd. (page history and authors); q.v. (page history and authors); quod (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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