ed

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a written abbreviation of edition, especially in bibliographic references

   The quotation appears in the second ed. of the handbook.

2. 2
   noun

   a written abbreviation of editor or edited by

   The essay is reprinted in J. Smith, ed., Modern Criticism.

3. 3
   noun

   an informal shortening of education

   She works in higher ed policy.

4. 4
   noun

   an eye-dialect spelling of head, representing dropped initial h

   The speaker’s dialect turns head into ed.

A conventional shortening of edition, editor, edited by, or education. In bibliographies, ed. after an edition number means edition, while before or after a person’s name it can identify an editor or edited by. The eye-dialect use separately represents head with its initial h dropped.

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