English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

English - Verb

had

1. simple past tense and past participle of have
   • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

     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 (+ past participle).
   • 2011, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, 15 April:

     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, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.4:

     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.

Related terms

• be had

Usage notes

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.

English - Anagrams

• ADH
• AHD
• dah
• DHA

Afrikaans - Verb

had

1. preterite of hê; had

Breton - Etymology

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

Breton - Noun

had ?

1. (botany) seed

Czech - Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

Czech - Noun

had m

1. snake

Derived terms

• hádě
• hadí

Related terms

• hadice f

Danish - Etymology

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

Danish - Noun

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

1. hate, hatred

Related terms

Danish - Verb

had

1. imperative of hade

Dutch - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑt
• IPA^(key): /ɦɑt/

Dutch - Verb

had

1. singular past indicative of hebben

Hungarian - Etymology

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric root *kunta as Finnish kunta.

Hungarian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɒd/

Hungarian - Noun

had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army

Declension

Derived terms

• hadgyakorlat
• hadi
• hadjárat
• hadsereg

Jersey Dutch - Verb

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. […]

Novial - Verb

had

1. past tense of ha

Old English - Etymology

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

Old English - Noun

hād m

1. person, individual; character
2. individuality
3. rank, order; degree
4. honor, dignity
5. office (esp religious)
6. state, condition; nature, manner
7. sex, gender
8. race; kindred, family; tribe, group
9. choir

Declension

Related terms

• -hād

Slovak - Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

Slovak - Noun

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

1. snake, serpent

Declension

Derived terms

• hadí
• hadica f

Turkish - Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd).

Turkish - Noun

had (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. limit
2. boundary

Upper Sorbian - Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

Upper Sorbian - Noun

had m

1. snake, serpent

Welsh - Etymology

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

Welsh - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɑːd]

Welsh - Noun

had m (collective, singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

1. (botany) seed, seeds (collectively)

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