dade

See also: Dade, dáde, and -dade

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
    • Drayton
      No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
    • Drayton
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Afrikaans

Noun

dade

  1. plural of daad

Galician

Verb

dade

  1. second-person plural imperative of dar

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀤𑀤𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • ददे (Devanagari script)
  • দদে (Bengali script)
  • දදෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • ဒဒေ (Burmese script)
  • ทเท (Thai script)
  • ᨴᨴᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ទទេ (Khmer script)

Verb

dade

  1. singular optative active of dadāti (“to give”)

Zazaki

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [dɑˈdə]
  • Hyphenation: da‧de

Noun

dade f

  1. (colloquial) maternal grandmother
    Synonym: dapire
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