hade
Plural: hades
Noun
- State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
- A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
- A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
Verb
Verb Forms: haded, hading, hades
- To incline or dip from the vertical, often referring to a vein or fault.
- To slope or incline from the vertical.
Examples
- The tiles seemed to HADE towards the bottom of the rack, making words harder to spot.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 8
hade: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhade: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hade: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary