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Ted¹

  • /tɛd/

Rhymes with -ɛd

Where it comes from

Shortened form of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus or Edmund.

proper noun

  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.”

    Similar: Eddie, Eddy, Tedd, Teddie, Teddy

noun Teds

  1. informal A Teddy boy.

TED²

noun TEDs

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

proper noun

  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.

ted³

  • /tɛd/ Canada, US, UK
  • /ted/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ʈɛɖ/ India

Rhymes with -ɛd

Where it comes from

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

noun 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.

ted⁴

  • /tɛd/ Canada, US, UK
  • /ted/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ʈɛɖ/ India

Rhymes with -ɛd

Where it comes from

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

verb teds · tedding · tedded

  1. To spread hay for drying. Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: teddy boy, brian, danson, teddy, tid, beer, lily, holly, robin, pdd, gest, narrator, marshall, asd, wings, atd

Translations

Every language

name diminutive of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, or Edmund

日本語テッド Teddo
中文泰德 Tàidé, 特德 Tèdé
РусскийТед Tɛd

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@misc{ted_2026,
  title = {ted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}