hide
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Sanskrit कुहरम् (kuharam, “cave”). Related to hut and sky.
Inflected forms:
form: hides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hid
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hidden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hid
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: hyde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He hides his magazines under the bed.
The father hid the gift behind him.
The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
gloss: To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
Baby, I know places we won't be found, and
They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide
I know places
gloss: The skin of an animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The human skin.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
gloss: One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
metonymically
uncountable
usually
examples: to save his own hide
better watch his hide
The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide—as I think he will.
gloss: (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.
gloss: A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In the early days of American settlement, hides were built into houses to provide protection from the Indians and to conceal merchandise from the threat of taxation or thievery.
gloss: A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: autohide
hiddle
hide-a-bed
hideable
hide-all
hide and coop
hide-and-die syndrome
hide-and-go-seek
hide and go seek
hide and seek
hide-and-seek
hideaway
hidebehind
hide behind
hide-hole
hide in plain sight
hide in the closet
hideling
hidelings
hide nor hair
hide one's light under a bushel
hide-out
hideout
hide out
hider
hide-rope
hide the ball
hide the salami
hide the sausage
hidness
huddle
one can run but one can't hide
rehide
unhide
bird hide
boarhide
bring one's own hide to market
calfhide
carry one's own hide to market
chap someone's hide
cowhide
damn your hide
dragonhide
greenhide
green hide
green-hide
have someone's hide
hidage
hide beetle
hide-bound
hidebound
hideless
hideworker
hideworking
hidy
hoghide
horsehide
moosehide
oxhide
rawhide
take one's own hide to market
tan someone's hide
watery hide disease
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гюме́
roman: gjumé
lang: Finnish
word: piilo
lang: French
word: cache
lang: French
word: affût
lang: German
word: Hochsitz
lang: Hungarian
word: les
lang: Hungarian
word: magasles
lang: Hungarian
word: rejtek
lang: Hungarian
word: -les
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: taigh-faire
lang: Swedish
word: gömme
lang: Swedish
word: gömställe
lang: Welsh
word: cuddfan