English Explanatory Dictionary

Hyde

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.
  2. A number of places in England:
  3. A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire.
  4. A hamlet in Minchinhampton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8801).
  5. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire).
  6. A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).
  7. A suburb of Winchester, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4830).
  8. A hamlet in Swindon borough, Wiltshire, probably in Blunsdon parish (OS grid ref SU1589).
  9. A census-designated place in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  10. An unincorporated community in Ridgeway, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States.
  11. A rural locality in Otago, New Zealand, between Middlemarch and Ranfurly.
noun
  1. Alternative form of hide (area of land)
verb
  1. Obsolete form of hide.

Pronunciation

/haɪd/

Word forms

Hyde Hydes hyding hyd hydden

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the root of hide (“measure of land”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Ide. * As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Haid.

Derived words

Hyde County Hyde Heath Hyde Park Hydes Creek Jekyll and Hyde Mr Hyde West Hyde
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