How do you use the word "hat" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hat": She was wearing a black hat. You must take off your hat in the room.

Hat Meaning

/hæt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA 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.

nounA particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

Sentence Examples

She was wearing a black hat.

You must take off your hat in the room.

The hat is part of the school uniform.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

lid

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She wore a warm ____ to protect her head from the cold wind.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He tipped his ____ to the lady as he passed her on the busy street corner yesterday.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:

"Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!" — 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and J. J. Abrams:

"It's all a matter of hats, Minister." — 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):

"My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother." — 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 2000, →ISBN, page 121:

"The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls." — 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:

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