clad
/klæd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
Example Sentences
- "[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!"
- "Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her."
- "Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene."
- "The radical conservatives of the Jain monks were called “Digambara—the sky-clad.” They went about completely naked, or in other words, “clothed in space.”"
- "There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders."
- "Love brought between my sheets a laughing lad / One night. Eighteen years old, he was half-clad / Like a young boy: what a sweet dream!"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gley-der. Proto-Germanic *klaiþijaną Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan Old English clǣþan Middle English clethen Middle English clad English clad From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gleh₁y-, clad, clǣþan, *klaiþijan
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /klæd/
- British English: /klæd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Synonyms
Antonyms
unclad
au naturel
bare
bare-ass
bare-assed
bare-bottomed
bare-bum
bare-butt
barefoot all over
bare naked
bareskin
bare-skinned