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ted

UK/tɛd/

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Australia/ted/

ted noun: a Teddy boy.

Noun (1)

ted (plural teds)

  1. A Teddy boy.
    • The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

Verb

ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)

  1. To spread hay for drying.
    • Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN

Noun (2) capitalized: TED

TED (usually uncountable, plural TEDs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, usually) Acronym of transmission electron diffraction.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym, usually) Acronym of turtle excluder device.
  3. (abbreviation, acronym, usually) Acronym of thyroid eye disease.
  4. (abbreviation, acronym, usually) Acronym of transferred electron device.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: TED

TED

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Technology, Entertainment, Design, a series of global conferences.
    • Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ted

Ted

  1. A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund.
    • Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025
    Synonyms:
    Eddie, Eddy, Tedd, Teddie, Teddy

Noun (3) capitalized: Ted

Ted (plural Teds)

  1. (informal) A Teddy boy.

ted meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

ted in Hindi

टेड, टी. ई. डी

ted in Tamil

டெட், டெட் க்கு

ted in Marathi

टेड, टी. ई. डी, टेड करण्यासाठी

ted in Urdu

ٹیڈ
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ted in Bengali
টেড, টি. ই. ডি, টেড করা
ted in Telugu
టెడ్, తెడ్, టెడ్కి
ted in Malayalam
ടെഡ്, ടെഡിലേക്ക്, ടെഡ് ചെയ്യാൻ
ted in Kannada
ಟೆಡ್, ಟಿ. ಇ. ಡಿ, ಟೆಡ್ಗೆ
ted in Punjabi
ਟੈਡ, ਟੇਡ, ਟੈੱਡ
ted in Gujarati
ટેડ
ted in Odia
ଟେଡ୍, ଟେଡ, ଟେଡ୍ କରିବାକୁ
ted in Nepali
टेड, टेड गर्न

Examples of ted in a sentence

  • I bet(ted) her £5 it wouldn't rain all week.
  • The word dis·ín·te·res·ted·ly is stressed on the propreantepenult.
  • Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.

All 17 example sentences with ted

Synonyms of ted

Forms of ted

Noun
pluralteds
pluralTEDs
pluralTeds
Verb
third-person singular presentteds
present participletedding
past participletedded
pasttedded

Plural of ted: teds

Origin of ted

From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.

Inherited from Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).

Shortened form of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus or Edmund.

Words formed from ted

Phrases with ted

Words that rhyme with ted

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Questions about ted

What does ted mean?
Ted means a Teddy boy.
What is ted in Hindi?
Ted in Hindi is टेड, टी. ई. डी. See Ted meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ted?
Ted can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ted?
Ted is pronounced /tɛd/ (UK).
What is the plural of ted?
The plural of ted is teds.

Words near ted in the dictionary

  1. tecum
  2. Tecumseh
  3. Tecumseh step test
  4. Tecumseh step tests
  5. Tecwyn
  6. ted
  7. TED spread
  8. Teda
  9. Tedaga
  10. tedalinab
  11. tedanolide

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ted (page history and authors); TED (page history and authors); Ted (page history and authors); ted (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ted (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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