dade

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See also: Dade, dáde, and -dade

English

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dade (third-person singular simple present dades, present participle dading, simple past and past participle daded)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
    • 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] (please specify the subtitle)”, in Poems: [], London: [] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC:
      Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Noun

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dade

  1. plural of daad

Galician

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dade

  1. second-person plural imperative of dar

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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dade

  1. third-person singular optative active of dadāti (to give)

Romani

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Noun

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dade m

  1. Dolenjski form of dad (father)

Zazaki

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dɑˈdə]
  • Hyphenation: da‧de

Noun

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dade

  1. (colloquial) maternal grandmother
    Synonym: dapire