dade

See also: Dade, dáde, and -dade

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /deɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

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

(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. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, OCLC 1049089293:
  No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
(obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] (please specify the subtitle)”, in Poems: […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, […], published 1613, OCLC 79632854:
  Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Edda, adde, dead

Afrikaans

Noun

dade

plural of daad

Galician

Verb

dade

second-person plural imperative of dar

Pali

Alternative forms

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)

Verb

dade

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

Romani

Noun

dade m

Dolenjski form of dad (“father”)

Zazaki

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [dɑˈdə]
Hyphenation: da‧de

Noun

dade f

(colloquial) maternal grandmother
Synonym: dapire