cade
/keɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.96 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
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noun
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Example Sentences
- "Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;"
- "They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me."
- "Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand."
- "Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure to grow up an epicure!"
- "Besides, the more luxury a child has, the more he will require—wants beget wants; until, at length, he will become a poor, wretched, artificial imbecile, fit only to be caded and cottoned up in warm enervating rooms; but totally unfit to be buffeted about—as is good for him—in this rough world of ours."
- ""He's neither more nor less interesting than any other man, I suppose," replied Miss Podbury drily. "They're all alike, as far as I can see. I can't think what women find in them to make such a fuss about, cading them up and spoiling them in the way they do!""
Etymology
* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, cade, cadus, catanum
Usage
Inflected Forms
Cades (plural)
Caid (alternative)
Caide (alternative)
Cayde (alternative)
Kade (alternative)
Kaid (alternative)
Kaide (alternative)
Kayde (alternative)
cades (present, singular)
cading (participle, present)
caded (participle, past)
caded (past)
Phrases
cade juniper
cade oil