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med¹

  • /mɛːd/

Rhymes with -ɛd

adjective

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal, not comparable Clipping of medical I'm in med school.
  2. abbreviation, clipping, not comparable Clipping of median

noun meds

  1. countable, in plural, informal, uncountable A medication, especially a prescribed psychoactive medication. He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.
  2. abbreviation, clipping, informal, uncountable Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject. My brother studied med at Cambridge.
  3. countable, informal A medic; a doctor. A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.

verb meds · medding · medded

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of medicate

med²

  • /mɛːd/

Rhymes with -ɛd

verb

  1. UK, dialectal, pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of might You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

Med³

  • /mɛd/

Rhymes with -ɛd

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal, with definite article Clipping of Mediterranean We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.

Med⁴

  • /mɛd/

Rhymes with -ɛd

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of medical
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of medicine

MEd⁵

noun MEds

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Master of Education

MED⁶

proper noun MED · the MED

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Middle English Dictionary As frequent users of the MED well know, of course, the MED history of ‘misledinge’ only appears inverted if we look at dates of composition, since it is in fact manuscript date that dictates the order of quotation under any of the semantic subdivisions in any MED entry.

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Closest in meaning: medium, postgrad, asd, microenterprise, average, with, medium-sized, meda, micro, evac, medicine, medical, medicinal, emr, dme, smoke

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@misc{med_2026,
  title = {med},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/med},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}