hidden

English

Etymology

Morphologically hid +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭdʹn, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪdn/

Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪdən

Verb

hidden

1. past participle of hide

Adjective

hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)

1. 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.

2. Obscure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Antonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

• hidden agenda
• hidden-ball trick
• hidden champion
• hidden city
• hidden curriculum
• hidden gem
• hidden in plain sight
• hidden layer
• hidden Markov model
• hidden quantity
• hidden tax
• hidden variable

 

Translations

out of sight; not visually apparent

• Arabic: مُخْفًى‎ (muḵfan), خَفِيّ‎ (ḵafiyy)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: йәшерелгән (yäşerelgän); (invisible) күҙгә күренмәгән (küðgä kürenmägän), күҙгә күренмәҫ (küðgä kürenmäθ)
• Catalan: amagat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: verscholen (nl), verborgen (nl)
• Egyptian: (jmn)
• Finnish: piilossa (fi), piilo-, piilevä (fi), kätketty (fi), piilotettu (fi)
• French: caché (fr)
• Galician: escondido
• Georgian: ფარული (paruli), დამალული (damaluli)
• German: versteckt (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κρυπτός (kruptós)

• Hebrew: מֻסְתָּר‎ (mustar), נִסְתַּר‎ (nistar) (poetic)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: rejtett (hu)
• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: nascosto (it), recondito (it)
• Japanese: 隠れた (ja) (kakureta), 目に見えない (me ni mienai)
• Khmer: លាក់ (km) (lĕək)
• Khmu: ມັ່ງ
• Korean: 숨겨진 (sumgyeojin)
• Latin: occultus, abditus, cēlātus
• Macedonian: скри́ен (skríen)
• Maori: huna, hunahuna
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: लुकेको (lukeko)
• Polish: ukryty (pl)
• Portuguese: escondido (pt)
• Romanian: ascuns (ro)
• Russian: (intentionally hidden) спря́танный (ru) (sprjátannyj), скры́тый (ru) (skrýtyj)
• Sanskrit: गुप्त (sa) (gupta)
• Spanish: escondido (es), oculto (es)
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ซ่อน (th) (sɔ̂ɔn)
• Turkish: gizli (tr), saklı (tr)
• Vietnamese: ẩn (vi)
• Welsh: anweledig (cy)

obscure

• Bulgarian: скрит (bg) (skrit)
• Bashkir: аңлайышһыҙ (aŋlayışhıð)
• Dutch: obscuur (nl), verborgen (nl), versluierd (nl)
• Finnish: piilotettu (fi), piiloutunut (fi)
• Macedonian: не́јасен (néjasen)
• Polish: ukryty (pl)
• Portuguese: abstruso (pt), obscuro (pt)
• Russian: нея́сный (ru) (nejásnyj), сму́тный (ru) (smútnyj)
• Vietnamese: ẩn khuất

that has been hidden

• Bashkir: йәшерелгән (yäşerelgän), йәшерен (yäşeren)
• Czech: skrytý (cs)
• Dutch: verborgen (nl), verscholen (nl), verstopt (nl)
• Esperanto: kaŝa
• Estonian: peidetud
• Finnish: piilotettu (fi), kätketty (fi), piilo-
• French: caché (fr)
• Georgian: ფარული (paruli)
• German: versteckt (de), verborgen (de)
• Hebrew: גָּנוּז‎ (ganuz)
• Hungarian: rejtett (hu), elrejtett
• Irish: ceilte
• Italian: nascosto (it), recondito (it), celato (it), occulto (it)
• Japanese: 隠された (kakusareta), 秘密の (ja) (himitsu no)
• Khmer: លាក់ (km) (lĕək)
• Khmu: ມັ່ງ
• Latin: abditus
• Macedonian: скри́ен (skríen)

• Persian: نهان‎ (fa) (nahân)
• Polish: ukryty (pl)
• Portuguese: escondido (pt)
• Rapa Nui: hakananai'a
• Romanian: ascuns (ro)
• Russian: спря́танный (ru) (sprjátannyj), скры́тый (ru) (skrýtyj), потаённый (ru) (potajónnyj)
• Spanish: oculto (es)
• Vietnamese: giấu (vi), ẩn (vi)

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)

1. (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive	hidden
participle	gehitt
auxiliary	hunn
	present indicative	imperative
1st singular	hidden	—
2nd singular	hitts	hitt
3rd singular	hitt	—
1st plural	hidden	—
2nd plural	hitt	hitt
3rd plural	hidden	—
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.