hat
/hæt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.53 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
noun
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
noun
A hat switch.
noun
The circumflex symbol.
Example Sentences
- "There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls."
- "Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!"
- "It's all a matter of hats, Minister."
- "My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother."
- "We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other."
- "The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls."
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. Verb sense 4 derives from a common English Wikipedia template used to collapse disruptive discussions, {{Hidden archive top}}, abbreviated as {{hat}}.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hat, hætt, *hattuz, *kedʰ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hæt/
- British English: /hat/