Wade, Virginia Wade
(noun) English tennis player who won many women’s singles titles (born in 1945)
wade
(verb) walk (through relatively shallow water); “Can we wade across the river to the other side?”; “Wade the pond”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wade (third-person singular simple present wades, present participle wading, simple past and past participle waded)
(intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
(intransitive) to progress with difficulty
(transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
(intransitive) To enter recklessly.
wade (plural wades)
An act of wading.
(colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
wade (uncountable)
Obsolete form of woad.
• Dawe, Dewa, awed
Wade
A topographic surname.
A male given name from surnames.
A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
Technically, Wade should only refer to the system of Chinese romanization developed by Thomas Wade prior to the contributions and adjustments made by Herbert Giles. In practice, it was often used as a shorthand for the more proper term Wade-Giles.
• (romanization): Wade-Giles
• Dawe, Dewa, awed
Source: Wiktionary
Wade, n.
Definition: Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Wade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] Etym: [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.]
1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. Chaucer. Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. Old Play.
2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Milton.
3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant.
Wade, v. t.
Definition: To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded .
Wade, n.
Definition: The act of wading. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
