Wade Definition
wād
waded, wades, wading
verb
To walk through any substance, as water, mud, snow, sand, tall grass, etc., that offers resistance.
Webster's New World
To go across or through by wading.
To wade a brook.
Webster's New World
To walk about in shallow water, as for amusement.
Webster's New World
To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty.
Wade a swift creek.
American Heritage
To go forward with effort or difficulty.
To wade through a long report.
Webster's New World
noun
An act of wading.
Webster's New World
Obsolete form of woad.
Wiktionary
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Synonyms:
- Virginia Wade
pronoun
Wiktionary
A male given name, transferred from the surname.
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A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
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Origin of Wade
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Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadanÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- "to go". Cognates include Latin vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).
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Middle English waden from Old English wadan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From the Old English for a ford.
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