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theed

/ðiːd/

theed is the simple past and past participle of thee.

Meaning of thee

Verb (1)

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)

  1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
    • What! doſt thou not believe that God's Thouing and theeing was and is ſound Speech? [...] And theeing & Thouing of one ſingle Perſon was the language of Chriſt Jeſus, and the Holy Prophets and Apoſtles both under the Diſpenſations of Law and Goſpel, [...]1677, William Gibson, “An Answer to John Cheyney’s Pamphlet Entituled The Shibboleth of Quakerism”, in The Life of God, which is the Light and Salvation of Men, Exalted: […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    thou
  2. (intransitive) To use the word thee.
    • The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.2006, Julian Dibbell, chapter 5, in Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    thou

Verb (2)

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)

  1. (UK, intransitive, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.
    • Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33

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Noun (1)

IPA/θiːd/

theed (plural theeds)

  1. (rare) Language.
    Synonyms:
    tongue, speech, atheed

Noun (2) capitalized: THEED

THEED (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of tetrahydroxyethylethylenediamine.

Synonyms of theed

Forms of theed

pluraltheeds
alternative formthede

Origin of theed

Learned borrowing from Old English þēod (“language”), from Proto-West Germanic *þeudu, from Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people, tribe”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“tribe”).

Words that rhyme with theed

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Questions about theed

What does theed mean?
Theed means language.
What is theed the simple past and past participle of?
Theed is the simple past and past participle of thee.
What part of speech is theed?
Theed is a noun.
How do you pronounce theed?
Theed is pronounced /ðiːd/.
What is the plural of theed?
The plural of theed is theeds.

Words near theed in the dictionary

  1. Thedford
  2. Thedtsho
  3. thee
  4. thee and me
  5. thee sen
  6. theed
  7. Theedom
  8. Theedoms
  9. theef
  10. theefs
  11. theeing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: theed (page history and authors); THEED (page history and authors); thee (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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