hade
State; order, estate, rank, degree, or qualityState; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
» The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
Meaning
3 senses(Scotland, dialectal)State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
Examples
5 sentencesThe road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth.
deNiemand kann seinen überbordenden Reichtum mit in den Hades nehmen.
The chthonic ruler of the underworld, Hades, lived below the earth.
The chthonic deity Hades.
Hades is Apollo's uncle.
ruАид — дядя Аполлона.
Origin
From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, characFrom Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy- (“light, bright, shining”).
Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.
Probably from a dialectal or variant form of head. According to Sundby, from Middle English hade, havede, from Old English hēafdum, dative plural of hēafod (“head”) as evidenced in the Worcestershire bynames/surnames atte Haveden, atte Haden, although derivation from other inflected forms (where trisyllabic shortening then open-syllable lengthening would've occured; compare lady) is also possible, in which case the bynames would still attest the dative plural.
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