dade

See also: Dade, dáde, and -dade

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
   • Drayton

     No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
   • Drayton

     Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• Edda, adde, dead

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Afrikaans

Noun

dade

1. plural of daad

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Galician

Verb

dade

1. second-person plural imperative of dar

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀤𑀤𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• ददे (Devanagari script)
• দদে (Bengali script)
• දදෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဒဒေ or ၻၻေ (Burmese script)
• ทเท or ทะเท (Thai script)
• ᨴᨴᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ທເທ or ທະເທ (Lao script)
• ទទេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄘𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

dade

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

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Romani

Noun

dade m

1. Dolenjski form of dad (“father”)

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Zazaki

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dade

1. (colloquial) maternal grandmother

   Synonym: dapire