hat
pronunciation
How to pronounce hat in British English:
UK [hæt]
How to pronounce hat in American English:
US [hæt]
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- Noun:
- headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- an informal term for a person's role
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- Verb:
- put on or wear a hat
- furnish with a hat
Word Origin
- hat
- hat: [OE] Hat and hood are ultimately the same word, and denote literally ‘head-covering’. Both go back to Indo-European *kadh- ‘cover, protect’, which in the case of hat produced a Germanic derivative *khadnús, later *khattus. This was the source of English hat, and also of Swedish hatt and Danish hat (German hutt and Dutch hoed ‘hat’ are more closely related to English hood).=> hood
- hat (n.)
- Old English hæt "hat, head covering" (variously glossing Latin pileus, galerus, mitra, tiara), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz "hood, cowl" (cognates: Frisian hat, Old Norse hattr, höttr "a hood or cowl"), from PIE root *kadh- "cover, protect" (cognates: Lithuanian kudas "tuft or crest of a bird," Latin cassis "helmet"). To throw one's hat in the ring was originally (1847) to take up a challenge in prize-fighting. To eat one's hat (1770), expressing what one will do if something he considers a sure thing turns out not to be, is said to have been originally eat Old Rowley's [Charles II's] hat.
Example
- 1. The clothes match your hat very well in colors .
- 2. Does a chef 's hat make the resultant food taste better ?
- 3. Home is where you hang your hat .
- 4. She took off her hat and coat .
- 5. I really take my hat off to them .