Definition of "deed"

deed

/diːd/

noun
plural deeds
1. An action or act; something that is done.
  Quotations
  And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 44:15
2. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
  Quotations
  They should accomplish both a knightly deed,
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 4
  whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
  1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], (please specify the stanza number)
3. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
4. (law) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.
  1. (by extension, real estate) The legal title to real estate; ownership.
verb
third-person singular simple present deeds, present participle deeding, simple past and past participle deeded
1. (real estate, informal) To transfer real property by deed.