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.

• (stressed) IPA^(key): /hæd/
• (had to): IPA^(key): /hæt/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /həd/, /əd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

had

1. Simple past tense and past participle of have.

   This morning I had an egg for breakfast.

   A good time was had by all.

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] 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, followed by a past participle) Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.

   I felt sure that I had seen him before.

   • 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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] 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, like that, is one of a small number of words to be correctly used twice in succession in English in a non-contrived way, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”

• had better
• had best

• 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 Old Czech had, from Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦat]

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• Hyphenation: had
• Rhymes: -at

had m anim

1. snake

• hádě
• hadí
• hadice

• hadice f

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

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“hate”).

• 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 hodu, from Proto-Ugric *kŭnta, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta.[1] Cognate with Finnish kunta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒd]

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army
2. (military, in compound words or phrases) war

• had in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• hād
• hāt

• IPA^(key): /hat/

had

1. singular past indicative of hävve; had.
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]

     A man had two sons. […]

From Classical Malay [script needed] (had), from Arabic حَدّ‎ (ḥadd).

• IPA^(key): /had/

had (plural had-had, informal 1st possessive hadku, 2nd possessive hadmu, 3rd possessive hadnya)

1. limit
   1. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).

      Synonym: limit (Indonesian)

2. boundary

• batas

• berhad

• “had” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

had m

1. snake

• Czech: had

• “had”, in Vokabulář webový: webové hnízdo pramenů k poznání historické češtiny [online], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2006–2023

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

• IPA^(key): /xɑːd/, [hɑːd]

hād m

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

     Þonne sē sċop inn ġebringþ ōðre hādas þe wiþ hine wordliġen swelċe hīe him andswariġen, þonne biþ sēo ġesetnes "ġemǣnu" oþþe "ġemenġedu" ġeċīeġed.

     When the poet introduces other characters who talk to him as if 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"

     ġehwelċes hādes menn

     people of every rank

5. a person of the Trinity
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"

     Nis sē Fæder āna Þrīnes, oþþe sē Sunu Þrīnes, oþþe sē Hālga 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
   • c. 992, 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. Sē forma hād is þe spricþ be him selfum ānum ("iċ seċġe", oþþe mid ōðrum mannum on maniġfealdum ġetæle, "wē seċġaþ"). Sē ōðer hād is þe sē forma spricþ tō ("þū sæġst", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "ġē seċġaþ"). Sē þridda hād is be þǣm þe sē forma hād spricþ tō þǣm 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, had, hade, hede, hode
  • English: hade, hede (obsolete)
  • Scots: hade (obsolete)

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

• IPA^(key): [ɦat]

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 slovnik.juls.savba.sk

had

1. Romanization of 𒉺 (ḫad)

From Ottoman Turkish حد‎ (hadd), from Arabic حَدّ‎ (ḥadd).

• IPA^(key): /had/, [hɑ̈dʲ]

had (definite accusative haddi, plural hadler)

1. limit
2. boundary

From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

had m

1. snake, serpent

• “had” in Soblex

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

• IPA^(key): /haːd/
• Rhymes: -aːd

had m pl or m sg (singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

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

• hadu (“to sow”)

had

1. simple past tense of ha (“have”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Ich woul ich had.

     I wish I had.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 79