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From Old French fader, from fade.

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fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

  1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

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fade (plural fades)

  1. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
  2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.

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fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

  1. (intransitive) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
  2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
  3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
  4. (transitive) To cause to fade.

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fade

  1. definite of fad
  2. plural of fad

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fade n.

  1. plural indefinite of fad

[edit] Finnish

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fade

  1. (slang) father

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[edit] French

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From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

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fade m. (f. fade, m. plural fades, f. plural fades)

  1. tasteless, insipid
  2. boring; lukewarm

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  • IPA: /ˈfaː.də/

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fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten)

  1. fade
    • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag
      Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.
      An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."
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