CD

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1997.

   Synonyms: COD (alpha-3 1997–present), ZR (1974–1997, as Zaire)

2. (IUCN Red List, obsolete) Abbreviation of Conservation Dependent

CD

1. corps diplomatique, diplomatic corps (collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body)

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiːˈdiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iː

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

1. Initialism of compact disc.

   I misplaced the software installation CD.

   • 1980 April 13, Allan Kozinn, “The Future is Digital”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Called Compact Discs (CD for short) and expected to enter the market by 1983, they play an hour per side and are virtually indestructible.

   1. (metonymic, dated) An album; a collection of musical recordings (or, occasionally, other audio such as spoken word).

      Mariah Carey's new CD has some R'n'B influences.

2. (diplomacy, now rare) Initialism of corps diplomatique, the diplomatic corps of a particular country.
   • 1955, Graham Greene, The Quiet American:

     Along the route to Tanyin flowed a fast stream of staff and C.D. cars.

   • 1978, Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing, Vintage, published 2007, page 8:

     Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates.

3. (finance) Abbreviation of certificate of deposit.
   • 2023 April 21, Ann Carrns, “Rates on C.D.s Are Soaring, but the High Rates May Not Last”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Banks may offer premium rates on C.D.s to attract deposits, but once they get those deposits, they end the offers.

4. (business) Initialism of creative director, head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
5. (business) Initialism of corporate design, specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI.
6. (networking) Initialism of collision detection.
7. (nautical) Initialism of chart datum.
8. Initialism of cross-dresser.
9. Initialism of cross-dressing.
10. (physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) Initialism of circular dichroism.
11. (immunology, biochemistry) Initialism of cluster of differentiation.
12. (video games) Abbreviation of cooldown.
13. (UK, law) Initialism of controlled drug.
14. (medicine) Abbreviation of Crohn's disease.
15. (software engineering) Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.

    Coordinate term: CI

• (corps diplomatique): CD plate
• (compact disk): CD burner, CD drive, CD player, mini CD, CD-DA, CD-i, CD-R, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DDCD, MIL-CD, VCD, video CD
• (cluster of differentiation): CD3, CD4, CD7, CD8, CD10, CD11, CD13, CD15, CD18, CD19, CD20, CD21, CD22, CD23, CD30, CD33, CD35, CD38, CD43, CD45, CD46, CD52, CD54, CD56, CD79a, CD103, CD117, CD135, CD138, CD150, CD319

CD (third-person singular simple present CDs, present participle CDing, simple past and past participle CDed)

1. Initialism of cross-dress.
   • 1993 January 5, Tierney Dhewitrei, “about me, is it familiar?”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

     By now I did not feel right without a bra and panties whenever I CD'ed.

• D&C, D.C., DC, Dc, d/c, dc

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD, compact disc

   Synonym: disc compacte

From English CD.

CD

1. CD, compact disk (Classifier: 張／张 m c; 隻／只 c)
   • 2011, “因为爱情”, 柯肇雷 [Ke Zhaolei] (lyrics), 柯肇雷 [Ke Zhaolei] (music):

     給你一張過去的CD / 聽聽那時我們的愛情 [MSC, trad.]
     给你一张过去的CD / 听听那时我们的爱情 [MSC, simp.]

     gěi nǐ yī zhāng guòqù de CD  /  tīng tīng nàshí wǒmen de àiqíng [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Abbreviation of English cross-dresser.

CD

1. (Internet slang) cross-dresser

Borrowed from English CD.

CD f (plural CD)

1. (Luserna) CD (compact disc)

• “CD” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

English CD

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːˌdeː/, [ˈs̠e̞ːˌde̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː

CD

1. CD, compact disc

Inflection of CD (Kotus type 18/maa) singular plural nominative CD CD:t genitive CD:n CD:iden CD:itten partitive CD:tä CD:itä accusative CD CD:n CD:t inessive CD:ssä CD:issä elative CD:stä CD:istä illative CD:hen CD:ihin adessive CD:llä CD:illä ablative CD:ltä CD:iltä allative CD:lle CD:ille essive CD:nä CD:inä translative CD:ksi CD:iksi abessive CD:ttä CD:ittä instructive – CD:in comitative – CD:ineen

• “CD”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /se.de/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophone: céder

CD m (invariable)

1. CD (compact disk)

• lecteur CD/lecteur de CD

From English CD.

• IPA^(key): /tseˈdeː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

CD f (genitive CD, plural CDs or CD or (proscribed) CD's)

1. CD (compact disc)

• “CD” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• cédé

From English CD.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seːdeː]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -deː

CD (plural CD-k)

1. CD (compact disc)

• CD, redirecting to cédé in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Initialism of ceirnín dlúth (“compact disc”), but simultaneously a borrowing from English CD.

CD m

1. CD, compact disc

Borrowed from English CD.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi ˈdi/

CD m

1. CD, compact disc

   Synonym: (rare) disco compatto

Borrowed from English CD.

• (Tokyo) シーディー [shìídíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiːdʲiː]

CD(シーディー) • (shīdī) 

1. abbreviation of コンパクトディスク (konpakuto disuku, “compact disc”); a CD

   それはヘビメタのＣ(シー)Ｄ(ディー)です。

   Sore wa hebimeta no shīdī desu.

   That is a heavy metal CD.

2. abbreviation of キャッシュディスペンサー (kyasshu disupensā, “cash dispenser”); an ATM, cash machine

   コンビニのＣ(シー)Ｄ(ディー)からお金(かね)を引(ひ)き出(だ)しました。

   Konbini no shīdī kara o-kane o hikidashimashita.

   I withdrew money from an ATM at a convenience store.

• C(シー)D-ROM(ディーロム) (shīdī-romu)

Borrowed from English CD.

CD f (plural CD)

1. CD (compact disc)

• “CD” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• cd

From English CD.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːˈdeː/
• (Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈsêːˈděː]

CD m (definite singular CD-en, indefinite plural CD-er, definite plural CD-ene)

1. a CD (compact disc)

• kompaktplate

• “CD” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• cd

From English CD.

CD m (definite singular CD-en, indefinite plural CD-ar, definite plural CD-ane)

1. a CD (compact disc)

• kompaktplate

• “CD” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• cd (less common)

Unadapted borrowing from English CD.

• IPA^(key): /siˈdi/

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: C‧D

CD m inan or n or f (indeclinable)

1. (computing, music) CD, compact disc

   Synonyms: kompakt, płyta kompaktowa

CD m inan or n (indeclinable)

1. (computing, music) CD player

Unadapted borrowing from French CD, corps diplomatique.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛˈdɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: C‧D

CD m inan or n (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy) CD, corps diplomatique

• CD in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• CD in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• cedê (uncommon)

Orthographic borrowing from English CD.

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD (compact-disc: a type optical data storage disc)

CD f (plural CDs)

1. initialism of crossdresser
   • 2021 April 8, Beatriz Bastos, Bia Mathieu, Carolina Dantas, Carol Dia, Stéfane Souto, Luana Souza, Joice Araújo, Sara Mariano, Sofia, Controversas: Perspectivas de Mulheres em Cultura e Sociedade‎^[4], Pinaúna Editora, →ISBN:

     Certo dia, eu li que meninos que se vestiam de meninas sem ter como objetivo a cena, eram chamados de crossdressing e a sigla utilizada era CD. Estava aí, então, a pista para o nome com o qual eu me identificaria em salas de bate papo, Lili CDzinha, uma alusão à personagem Lili Bolero, interpretada pela saudosa atriz Consuelo

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “CD”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from English CD.

• IPA^(key): /siˈdi/

CD n (plural CD-uri)

1. CD, compact disc

• cedé

Borrowed from English CD.

• IPA^(key): /θeˈde/ [θeˈð̞e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈde/ [seˈð̞e] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -e
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siˈdi/ [siˈð̞i]
  • Rhymes: -i

CD m (plural CDs or CD)

1. CD (compact disc)

   Synonyms: disco compacto, compacto

• “CD”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “cedé, grafía válida”, in FundéuRAE (Fundación del Español Urgente) [Foundation of Urgent Spanish] (in Spanish), Agencia EFE; Real Academia Española, 4 February 2011

• cd

Borrowed from English CD, according to SO attested since the mid-1980s.

CD c

1. A CD (compact disc).

   Synonym: CD-skiva

2. indefinite plural of CD

   Synonym: CD:ar

• The term CD in Swedish can be declined in two ways, possibly due to its status as a loanword. Both declensions are generally considered acceptable, although specific style guides may dictate otherwise.

• CD in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Borrowed from English CD.

• IPA^(key): /siːˈdiː/

CD (definite accusative CD'yi, plural CD'ler)

1. CD, compact disc

Initialism of crynoddisg (“compact disc”), but simultaneously a borrowing from English CD.

CD m

1. CD, compact disc