What does "ted" mean?
A Teddy boy.
Ted
/tɛd/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A Teddy boy.
- Grammar: ted is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: aerate hay, stir hay, talk series, ted conference.
- Useful contrasts: compress hay, female name, informal talk.
- Usage evidence: Roy is secretive and Ted is candid.
How to use "ted"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A Teddy boy. informal
- 2 Acronym of transmission electron diffraction. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually
- 3 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."
- 4 a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes wordnet
- 5 Acronym of turtle excluder device. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually
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- 6 Acronym of thyroid eye disease. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually
- 7 Acronym of transferred electron device. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually
Verb
- 1 To spread hay for drying.
"Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying."
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.”"
- 2 Acronym of Technology, Entertainment, Design, a series of global conferences. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
"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."
Synonyms
All synonyms aerate haystir haytalk seriested conferenceted organizationted talks
Antonyms
compress hayfemale nameinformal talknon TED event
Example
"Roy is secretive and Ted is candid."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "ted"?
Common synonyms include: aerate hay, stir hay, talk series, ted conference, ted organization, ted talks.
How do you use "ted" in a sentence?
Roy is secretive and Ted is candid.
How do you pronounce "ted"?
Pronounced /tɛd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Shortened form of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus or Edmund.
Etymology 2
From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.
Etymology 3
Inherited from Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).