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tod

/tɒd/US/tɑd/

tod noun: a male fox.

Noun (1)

tod (plural tods)

  1. A male fox.
    Synonyms:
    dog-fox, reynard
  2. (Scotland) A fox in general.
    • Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
  3. (figuratively) Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Noun (2)

tod (plural tods)

  1. A bush, especially of ivy.
    • His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2
    • For birds in bushes tooting:
      At length within the Ivy tod1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
  2. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202
    • Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209

Verb

tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)

  1. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

Noun (3) capitalized: TOD

TOD (countable and uncountable, plural TODs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of time of death.
    • “Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.”2015, Katherine Pritchett, What the River Knows
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of top of descent.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of transfer on death (the account has a beneficiary).
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of time-on-device.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism, urban studies) Initialism of transit-oriented development.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: TOD

TOD

  1. (video) A digital video format by JVC.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tod

Tod

  1. (colloquial) Todmorden.
    • The Todmorden News carried the comment endorsing that decision: 'This should now send Sainsbury's a clear signal, should they appeal, that they are not welcome in Tod. […]2013, Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli, Diversifying Food and Diets
    • The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan:
      ...a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.2014, Steve Hanson, Small Towns, Austere Times
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of Todd.

Noun (4) capitalized: ToD

ToD (plural ToDs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of TOD.

tod meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

tod in Hindi

टोड, टीओडी

tod in Marathi

टोड

tod in Urdu

ٹوڈ, ٹی او ڈی

tod in Bengali

টোড, টু টোড
More languagesFewer languages
tod in Telugu
టోడ్, టిఓడి
tod in Malayalam
ടോഡ്, ടോഡിലേക്ക്
tod in Kannada
ಟೋಡ್
tod in Punjabi
ਟੀ. ਓ. ਡੀ, ਟੋਡ, ਟੀਓਡੀ
tod in Gujarati
ટી. ઓ. ડી, ટોડ
tod in Odia
ଟୁ ଟୋଡ୍
tod in Nepali
टोड, टु टोड, टोड गर्न

Synonyms of tod

Forms of tod

Noun
pluraltods
pluralTODs
alternative formToD
alternative formT.O.D.
alternative formT.o.D.
alternative formT. O. D.
alternative formT. o. D.
pluralToDs
Verb
third-person singular presenttods
present participletodding
past participletodded
pasttodded

Plural of tod: tods

Origin of tod

From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.

Late Middle English, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the same source as German Zotte (“clotted hair”), which see. Also cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

Words formed from tod

Words that rhyme with tod

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Questions about tod

What does tod mean?
Tod means a male fox.
What is tod in Hindi?
Tod in Hindi is टोड, टीओडी. See Tod meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tod?
Tod can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tod?
Tod is pronounced /tɒd/ (UK).
What is the plural of tod?
The plural of tod is tods.

Words near tod in the dictionary

  1. Tocumwal
  2. tocusso
  3. tocut
  4. tocuts
  5. tocutting
  6. tod
  7. tod and lambs
  8. Toda
  9. Toda bracket
  10. Toda field theory
  11. Toda lattice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tod (page history and authors); TOD (page history and authors); Tod (page history and authors); ToD (page history and authors); tod (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tod (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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