dade

See also: Dade, dáde, and -dade

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

dade (third-person singular simple present dades, present participle dading, simple past and past participle daded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:

     No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
   • 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] (please specify the subtitle)”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC:

     Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.

Related terms

• daddle

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Edda, adde, dead

Afrikaans

Noun

dade

1. plural of daad

Galician

Verb

dade

1. second-person plural imperative of dar

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀤𑀤𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• ददे (Devanagari script)
• দদে (Bengali script)
• දදෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဒဒေ or ၻၻေ (Burmese script)
• ทเท or ทะเท (Thai script)
• ᨴᨴᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ທເທ or ທະເທ (Lao script)
• ទទេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄘𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

dade

1. third-person singular optative active of dadāti (“to give”)

Romani

Noun

dade m

1. Dolenjski form of dad (“father”)

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɑˈdə]
• Hyphenation: da‧de

Noun

dade

1. (colloquial) maternal grandmother

   Synonym: dapire