hidden
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
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- Rhymes: -ɪdən
VerbEdit
hidden
- past participle of hide
AdjectiveEdit
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?)
SynonymsEdit
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AntonymsEdit
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Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
out of sight; not visually apparent
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obscure
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LuxembourgishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German hüeten, from Old High German huoten, from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
hidden (third-person singular present hitt, past participle gehitt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after
ConjugationEdit
Regular | ||
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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. |