Meaning

10 senses

  1. 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.

  2. (figuratively)A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

    an informal term for a person's role

  3. (figuratively)Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.

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

    (broadly, figuratively)The lottery or draw itself.

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

  5. A hat switch.

    Kopfbedeckung, Kappe, Hut

    шля́паšljápa, ша́пкаšápka, головно́й убо́рgolovnój ubór

    капелю́хkapeljúx, ша́пкаšápka, капелю́хаkapeljúxa

  6. The circumflex symbol.

  7. (nonstandard, rare)The háček symbol.

  8. (informal)The caret symbol ^.

  9. (Internet)User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

  10. (obsolete)A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Examples

1760 sentences

  1. She was wearing a black hat.

    Вона була в чорному капелюсі. — zinova

    ruОна была в чёрной шляпе. — paul_lingvo

    deSie trug einen schwarzen Hut. — MUIRIEL

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  2. This is your hat, isn't it?

    Це твій капелюх, так? — deniko

    ruЭто твоя шляпа, нет? — odexed

    deDas ist dein Hut, oder? — al_ex_an_der

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  3. Tom was wearing a black hat.

    Том був у чорному капелюсі. — deniko

    ruТом носил черную шляпу. — odexed

    deTom trug einen schwarzen Hut. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Tom doesn't always wear a hat.

    Том не завжди у шапці. — deniko

    ruТом не всегда носит шляпу. — marafon

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  5. Tom doesn't usually wear a hat.

    Том зазвичай не носить шапки. — deniko

    ruТом обычно не носит шляпу. — odexed

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a head covering:
Русский
By meaning 1
a head covering:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a head covering:

Origin

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perha

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.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: hats
Singularhat
Pluralhats

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
capA1
student and nobleman:gold hatbandtuft
Close in meaning
  • headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim:chapeaulid

Word family

145 related words
Relatedhatter
Derivedangel hataureole hatbad hatbaseball hatbeach hatbeer hatblack hatbobble hatboonie hatbottom-hat transformbowler hatbowl hatbrass hatbucket hatbuckled hatbuckle hatcampaign hatcarpenter's hatcartwheel hatchimney-pot hatchip hatchurch hatcocked hatcocktail hat

Collocations

12 patterns
  • wear a hat
  • a new hat
  • a cowboy hat
  • new hat
  • cowboy hat
  • a straw hat
  • straw hat
  • off his hat
  • this hat is
  • has a hat
  • hat blown off
  • bought a hat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hasteB2hastenhastilyB2hastyB1hatchB1hatchet

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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