What does taxied mean?
Taxied is the past tense and past participle of taxi, a verb meaning to travel in a taxi or to transport someone in one. It is especially natural when describing movement by taxi after another journey has ended, as in “we taxied home,” or when a driver, hotel, or business arranges transportation for someone. The word is also used in the sense of having driven a taxi for hire, although this meaning is less common and depends on context. Taxied is ordinary, widely understood vocabulary in British and American English, though cab may sometimes be preferred when the broader category of hired passenger vehicles is intended. Its unusual past-tense form stands out from the more familiar plural noun taxis. Etymologically, the word belongs to the English taxi family, which includes taxicab and taximeter, and ultimately derives from a Greek word associated with arrangement or order.
verb (past tense and past participle)Traveled in a taxi or transported someone in one. It can also refer to having operated a taxi for hire, depending on context.
- Traveled in a taxi or transported someone in one.
"After the concert ended, we taxied back to the hotel."
"They taxied to the station after missing the last train."
"The hotel taxied the elderly guest to the airport."
Taxi reaches back to Greek taxis, “arrangement,” a word for order that also survives in taxonomy.
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Where does taxied come from?
Taxied comes from taxi, which was borrowed from French taxi. French taxi in turn derives from Greek taxis, meaning “arrangement” or “order,” ultimately from tassein, “to arrange.” The same Greek root appears in taximeter and taxonomy, while taxicab combines the modern English form taxi with cab.
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How taxied is actually used
The word has no strong regional restriction and is common in everyday British and American English. In some contexts, cab may be preferred when referring broadly to a hired passenger vehicle.
Easily confused with taxied
“Taxied” refers to traveling in or taking someone in a taxi, while “taxed” means to impose a tax or to be subjected to one.