Deed Definition
dēd
deeded, deeds
noun
deeds
A thing done; act.
Webster's New World
A feat of courage, skill, etc.
Webster's New World
A usually praiseworthy act; a feat or exploit.
American Heritage
Action; actual performance.
Honest in word and deed.
Webster's New World
A signed, sealed, and delivered instrument.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- title
- deed of conveyance
- human activity
- human action
- act
- transfer
- transaction
- stunt
- quest
- proof
- perpetration
- performance
- geste
- gest
- feat
verb
deeded, deeds
To convey (property) by such a document.
Webster's New World
To transfer by means of a deed.
Deeded the property to the children.
American Heritage
A written conveyance of an interest in real property.
Webster's New World Law
The act of granting a deed in property to another.
Webster's New World Law
(informal) To transfer real property by deed.
He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.
Wiktionary
adverb
(informal) Indeed.
Wiktionary
Origin of Deed
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From Middle English dede, from Old English dēd, (West Saxon) dǣd (“deed, act”), from Proto-Germanic *dēdiz (“deed”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰēti- (“deed, action”), *dʰéh₁tis. Cognate with West Frisian died, Dutch daad (“deed, act”), Low German Daat, German Tat (“deed, action”), Swedish and Danish dåd (“act, action”). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek θέσις (thesis, “setting, arrangement”). Related to do.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English dede from Old English dǣd dhē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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