English Explanatory Dictionary

hat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  2. A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
  3. Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
  4. The lottery or draw itself.
  5. A hat switch.
  6. The circumflex symbol.
  7. The háček symbol.
  8. The caret symbol ^.
  9. User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
  10. A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
verb
  1. To place a hat on.
  2. To appoint as cardinal.
  3. To shop for hats.
verb
  1. simple past of hit
noun
  1. Initialism of highest astronomical tide.
  2. Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.
  3. Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer.

Pronunciation

/hæt/ en-us-hat.ogg /hat/ en-uk-hat.ogg /hæ̞ʔ/ /hɛt/

Word forms

hat hats hatting hatted

Etymology

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

Synonyms

gold hatband tuft

Related words

take one's hat off to

Derived words

10-gallon hat Abraham Lincoln hat Akubra hat all hat and no cattle all hat and no cowboy Alpine hat America's Hat angel hat Asian conical hat asshat at the drop of a hat aureole hat Australian bush hat bad hat baseball hat Bavarian hat beach hat beat into a cocked hat beer hat black as my hat black as your hat black hat black top-hat transform bobble hat bottom-hat transform bowler hat bowler hat out bowl hat brass hat brick in one's hat bucket hat buckled hat buckle hat buy yourself a hat campaign hat carpenter's hat cartwheel hat chimney-pot hat Chinese hat snail chip hat church hat cocked hat cocked hat curve cocked hat double cocktail hat Coke hat conical hat coolie hat coon-skin hat coonskin hat Cordovan hat cork hat Cossack hat cowboy hat cowgirl hat craphat crap hat crush hat Dappy hat Davey Crockett hat
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