Verb hide (hides, present participle hiding; simple past hid, past participle hidden)
- (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
- Synonyms: conceal, hide away, secrete, veil
- Antonyms: disclose, expose, reveal, show, uncover, visiblize, visualize
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.
- He hides his magazines under the bed.
- The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
- (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
- Synonyms: go undercover, hide away, hide out, lie low, hole up
- Antonyms: reveal, show
Translations Translations Etymology 2 From Middle English hyde, from Old English hȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European (compare Latin cutis), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-, ultimately the same root as the above etymology.
See also Western Frisian hûd, Dutch huid, German Haut, Welsh cwd, Latin cutis, Lithuanian kutys, Ancient Greek κύτος, σκῦτος ("cover, hide").
Noun hide (plural hides)
- (countable) The skin of an animal.
- Synonyms: pelt, skin
- (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623,
→OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
- (metonymically, uncountable, informal, usually, US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
- to save his own hide
- better watch his hide
- Coordinate term: ass (see ass § Usage notes)
- 1957, Ayn Rand, Francisco d'Anconia's speech in Atlas Shrugged:
- The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide—as I think he will.
- (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
- (countable, architecture) A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
- (countable) A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.
Translations Translations Verb hide (hides, present participle hiding; simple past and past participle hided)
- To beat with a whip made from hide.
1891, Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown,
Riding:
He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.
Etymology 3 From Middle English hide, from Old English hīd, hȳd, hīġed, hīġid ("a measure of land"), for earlier *hīwid ("the amount of land needed to support one family"), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *hīwaz, *hīwō ("relative, fellow-lodger, family"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-.
Noun hide (plural hides)
- (historical) A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. [from 9th c.]
- Synonyms: carucate
2016, Peter H. Wilson,
The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 488:
The exact size of hides varied with soil quality, but each one generally encompassed 24 to 26 hectares.
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