wade

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See also: Wade and wadę

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include German waten (“wade”) and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”) (whence English evade, invade, pervade).

Verb

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  1. (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
    • (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
      After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
  2. (intransitive) to progress with difficulty
    to wade through a dull book
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
    • (Can we date this quote by Davenant and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
  3. (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
    wading swamps and rivers
  4. (intransitive) To enter recklessly.
    to wade into a fight or a debate
Translations

Noun

wade (plural wades)

  1. An act of wading.
  2. (colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

wade (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of woad.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “wade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wade, from Old Dutch *watho, from Proto-Germanic *waþwô.

Cognate with German Wade (“calf (of leg)”), Swedish vad (“calf (of leg)”) and Afrikaans waai (“popliteal”).

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

  1. popliteus
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: waai

Etymology 2

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

  1. shroud
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch wade, reformed from waet through influence of the collective gewade (modern gewaad). Further from Old Dutch *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wēd-.

Cognate with Middle High German wāt, Old Saxon wād, Old English wǣd, Old Norse váð.

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

  1. type of trawl
Synonyms
Hypernyms

Etymology 4

Verb

wade

  1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waden

Middle English

Verb

wade

  1. Alternative form of waden
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