English Explanatory Dictionary

hood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
  2. A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
  3. A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
  4. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
  5. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  6. Particular parts of conveyances
  7. A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  8. The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
  9. A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
  10. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
  11. One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
  12. Various body parts
verb
  1. To cover (something) with a hood.
  2. To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
  3. To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.
noun
  1. Gangster, thug.
adj
  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.
noun
  1. A neighborhood.
  2. Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
noun
  1. Person wearing a hoodie.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A placename:
  3. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia, United States.
  5. Ellipsis of Hood County.
  6. Ellipsis of Hood River.

Pronunciation

/hʊd/ [hʊ̈d] [hɪ̈d] en-us-hood.ogg /hʉd/

Word forms

hood hoods hooding hooded 'hood

Etymology

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). See also Saterland Frisian Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian and Dutch hoed (“hat”), Cimbrian huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), Luxembourgish Hutt (“hat”); also Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /⁠xaudā⁠/)). More at hat.

Synonyms

blinder cowl motorhood bonnet frill ghetto nabe neighborhood shithole

Antonyms

unhood

Related words

cuculliform Houde

Derived words

beneath the hood biohood blindhood chemical hood clitoral hood cooker hood extractor hood forehood French hood fume hood greenhood hoodectomy hooden hoodful hoodie hoodless hoodlike hoodline hoodman hoodmold hoodmould hood ornament hoodrat hood rat hood rich hood-shy hood suppression system hood unit hoodwink hoodwise hoodwort hoody king's-hood kitchen hood laminar flow hood mesh hood monkshood monk's hood pram hood pup hood puppy hood Racal hood range hood riding-hood riding hood rustyhood scoodie smoke hood spit hood sprayhood sunhood underhood underneath the hood under the hood hooded unhood unhooded all good in the hood hoodweeb Hood County

Translations

Albanian: kapuç Arabic: قَلَنْسُوَة Arabic: زعبوط Arabic: كابتشو Arabic: كابشون Arabic: قب Armenian: վեղար Armenian: կապիշոն Azerbaijani: başlıq Azerbaijani: kapüşon Bashkir: капюшон Belarusian: капюшо́н Belarusian: каптур Bulgarian: качу́лка Catalan: caputxa Chinese Mandarin: 風帽 /风帽 Czech: kapuce Danish: hætte Dutch: kap Dutch: capuchon Esperanto: kapuĉo Estonian: kapuuts Finnish: huppu French: capuche French: capuchon Galician: carapucha Galician: caparuza Galician: capelo Galician: carapucho Georgian: კაპიშონი German: Kapuze Greek: κουκούλα Ancient Greek: κάλυμμα Hebrew: בַּרְדָּס Hebrew: קַפּוּצ׳וֹן Hindi: हुड Hungarian: kapucni Hungarian: csuklya Icelandic: hetta Ido: kapuco Irish: cochall Irish: maistín Italian: cappuccio Japanese: フード Japanese: 頭巾 Kashubian: kapùza Kazakh: күләпара Kazakh: башлық Kazakh: далбай Kazakh: далбағай Korean: 후드 Korean: 후드티 Korean: 두건 Kyrgyz: капюшон Kyrgyz: башлык Latin: cucullus Latin: tegillum Macedonian: ка́чулка Malay: serkup Maltese: barnuż Norwegian Bokmål: hette Norwegian Nynorsk: hette Iranian Persian: هود
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