hat
Meanings
Plural: hats
Noun
- headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- an informal term for a person's role
- "he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly"
- 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.
- A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
- Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
- The lottery or draw itself.
- A hat switch.
- The háček symbol.
- The caret symbol ^.
- User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
- A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
Verb
- put on or wear a hat
- "He was unsuitably hatted"
- furnish with a hat
- To place a hat on.
- To appoint as cardinal.
- To shop for hats.
- simple past of hit
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”).
Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
Scrabble Score: 6
hat is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordhat is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hat is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 5
hat is a valid Words With Friends word