Definitions and meaning of hade
hade
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /heɪd/
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- (Scotland) IPA(key): /hed/
- Rhymes: -eɪd, -ed
Etymology 1
From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy- (“light, bright, shining”). Cognate with Old Saxon hēd (“condition, rank”), Old High German heit (“person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank”), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity") (whence Danish hæder (“honour”), Swedish heder (“honour”)), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “way, manner”). Same as -hood.
Alternative forms
- had, haid (Scotland)
- hod, hode
Noun
hade (plural hades)
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.
Verb
hade (third-person singular simple present hades, present participle hading, simple past and past participle haded)
- (geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.
Noun
hade (plural hades)
- (geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, quoted in 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 34:
- The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother shades,
- And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades
- The daintie Clover growes (of grass the onely silke)
- That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.
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Etymology 3
Probably a dialectal or variant form of head.
Noun
hade (plural hades)
- (British, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
- 1615, in a Map in Corpus Christi College, Oxon, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary:
- [...] certeine arable landes some of them havinge hades of meadow and grasse grounde lieinge in the Southe fielde of Einsham.
- 1635, Terrier, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary:
- 6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades.
- 1534 [original], Anthony Fitzherbert, Husbandry, republished as Ancient Tracts concerning the Management of landed Property, republished, in The Monthly Review, or Journal (1767), page 270:
- And oxen wyl plowe in tough cley [...] And whereas is now suerall pastures, there the horse plowe is better, for the horses may be teddered, or tyed upon leys, balkes, or hades, whereas oxen may not be kept: and it is used to tedder them, but in fewe places.
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hade”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- -head, DHEA, Head, ahed, head
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhadeʔ/ [ˈha.d̪eʔ]
- IPA(key): /ˈʔadeʔ/ [ˈʔa.d̪eʔ] (h-dropping)
Noun
hadè (Basahan spelling ᜑᜇᜒ)
- misspelling of hadi
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
hade
- vocative singular of had
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hata, from Proto-Germanic *hatāną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haːdə/, [ˈhæːðə]
- Homophone: havde
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Verb
hade (imperative had, infinitive at hade, present tense hader, past tense hadede, perfect tense har hadet)
- to hate
- Antonym: elske
Conjugation
References
- “hade” in Den Danske Ordbog
Japanese
Romanization
hade
- Rōmaji transcription of はで
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hād.
Noun
hade
- alternative form of hod
Etymology 2
From Old English hēafod.
Noun
hade
- alternative form of heed
Norwegian
Pronunciation
Noun
hade
- alternative form of ha det
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxɑː.de/, [ˈhɑː.de]
Noun
hāde
- dative singular of hād
Swedish
Pronunciation
Verb
hade
- past indicative of ha
- past indicative of hava
Yola
Noun
hade
- alternative form of heade
References
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133
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