hidden
See also: Hidden
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: hĭdʹn, IPA(key): /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɪdn/
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- Rhymes: -ɪdən
Adjective
hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)
- Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
- hidden treasure; hidden talents
- 1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid, chapter 7:
- It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
- Obscure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
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Antonyms
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Derived terms
Translations
out of sight; not visually apparent
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obscure
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Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Middle High German hüeten, from Old High German huoten, from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhiden/, [ˈhidən]
- Rhymes: -idən
Verb
hidden (third-person singular present hitt, past participle gehitt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after
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