speed

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   How fast something moves or happens.

   The car was traveling at high speed.

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of moving or doing something quickly.

   The project advanced with surprising speed.

3. 3
   verb

   To move very fast.

   The train sped through the countryside.

4. 4
   verb

   To drive faster than the legal limit.

   He got a ticket for speeding on the highway.

Common collocations

• high speed Adjective + noun
• increase speed Verb + noun
• average speed Adjective + noun
• full speed Adjective + noun
• top speed Adjective + noun
• gain speed Verb + noun
• pick up speed Verb + noun
• reduce speed Verb + noun

From Middle English sped (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English spōwan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian…

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