hat

CEFRA1

/hæt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A covering worn on the head.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

Examples

  • The hat is part of the school uniform.

  • You must take off your hat in the room.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /hæ̞ʔ/
  • /hat/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.

  2. 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.

  3. A hat switch.

More examples

In context

  • She was wearing a black hat.

  • We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.

  • I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.”...

Synonyms

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

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Origin

noun

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.