had

From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ġehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habd-, past and past participle stem of *habjaną (“to have”), equivalent to have +‎ -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /hæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

had

1. simple past tense and past participle of have.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 1:

     About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, […].

2. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
   • 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:

     Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?

3. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute […].

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Julius Cæsar had escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.

   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 24:

     If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.

• had better
• had best

had

1. (obsolete) Available.
   • 1485, William Caxton, The Preface to Le Morte d'Arthur:

     Which be not had in our maternal tongue.

Had, like that, is one of a very few words to be correctly used twice in succession in English, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”

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• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, dah

had

1. preterite of hê; had

From Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh₁-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

had m (plural hadoù)

1. (botany) seed

had

1. (interrogative) where

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɦat/

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• Rhymes: -at

had m

1. snake

• hádě
• hadí

• hadice f

• had in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• had in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- (“hate”), *ḱād-.

• Rhymes: -ad

had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)

1. hate, hatred

had

1. imperative of hade

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• Rhymes: -ɑt
• IPA^(key): /ɦɑt/

had

1. singular past indicative of hebben

From Old Hungarian hadu, from Proto-Ugric *kontə, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta.[1] Cognate with Finnish kunta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒd]

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had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army

• hadi

had

1. had
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]

     A man had two sons. […]

had

1. to walk, go

   Kamkam, kahad à Urusalima aw! (Sləray 21:21)[1]

   Don't go to Jerusalem! (Acts 21:12)

had

1. Alternative form of hod

had

1. past tense of ha

From Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr (“dignity, honor”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner”).

hād m (nominative plural hādas)

1. person, individual
2. a character
   • c. 1011, Byrhtferth, Manual

     Þanne se sċop inn ġebringþ ōðre hādas þe wiþ hine wurdlien swelċe hīe him andswarien, þanne biþ sēo ġesetnes "ġemǣne" oþþe "ġemenġed" ġeċīeġed.

     When the poet brings in other characters who talk with him like they're answering him, the composition is called "common" or "mixed."

3. individuality
4. rank, status
   • 9th century, the Blickling Homilies, "The Third Sunday in Lent"

     ġehwilċes hādes menn

     people of every rank

5. a person of the Trinity
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"

     Nis se Fæder āna Þrīnes, oþþe se Sunu Þrīnes, oþþe se Hāliġa Gāst Þrīnes, ac þās þrī hādas sind ān god on ānre godcundnesse.

     The Trinity is not the Father alone, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit; these three persons are one god in one godhead.

6. honor, dignity
7. office (esp religious)
8. state, condition; nature, manner
9. gender
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of the Holy Virgins"

     Sēo ġelaðung is ġegaderod of ǣġðres hādes mannum, þæt is, werhādes and wīfhādes.

     The church is gathered from people of each gender, that is, the male sex and the female sex.

10. (grammar) grammatical person
    • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

      Þrī hādas sind worda. Se forma hād is þe spricþ be him selfum ānum ("iċ seċġe", oþþe mid ōðrum mannum on maniġfealdum ġetæle, "wē seċġaþ"). Se ōðer hād is þe se forma spricþ tō ("þū sæġst", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "ġē seċġaþ"). Se þridda hād is be þām þe se forma hād spricþ tō þām ōðrum hāde ("hē sæġþ", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "hīe seċġaþ").

      Verbs have three persons. The first person talks about himself alone ("I say", or with other people in the plural, "we say"). The second person is whoever the first person talks to ("you say", or in the plural "y'all say"). The third person is whoever the first person talks about to the second person ("he says", or in the plural "they say").

11. race; kindred, family; tribe, group
12. choir

• -hād

• Middle English: hod, hode, had, hade, hede
  • English: hade, hede (obsolete)
  • Scots: hade (obsolete)

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦat/

had m (genitive singular hada, nominative plural hady, genitive plural hadov, declension pattern of dub)

1. snake, serpent

• hadí
• hadica f

• had in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Borrowed from Arabic حَدّ‎ (ḥadd).

had (definite accusative hadı, plural hadlar)

1. limit
2. boundary

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

had m

1. snake, serpent

From Proto-Celtic *sato-, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁-tó-, past participle of *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

• IPA^(key): /haːd/

had m (collective, singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

1. seed, seeds (collectively)
2. semen, sperm

• hadu