WADE

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

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Etymology 1

Verb

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.

Noun

wade (plural wades)

An act of wading.

(colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.

Etymology 2

Noun

wade (uncountable)

Obsolete form of woad.

Anagrams

• Dawe, Dewa, awed

Etymology

Proper noun

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.

Usage notes

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.

Synonyms

• (romanization): Wade-Giles

Anagrams

• Dawe, Dewa, awed

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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