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hat

Pronunciation: /hæt/

The English word “hat” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  2. A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
  3. Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
  4. The lottery or draw itself.
  5. A hat switch.
  6. The circumflex symbol.
  7. The háček symbol.
  8. The caret symbol ^.
  9. User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
  10. A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

verb

  1. To place a hat on.
  2. To appoint as cardinal.
  3. To shop for hats.
  4. To collapse with a template a part of a discussion due to it being overly long, disruptive, or already addressed.

Etymology

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas…

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