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Had vs Hade - What's the difference?

had | hade |

Hade is a alternative form of had.

Hade is a derived term of had.

Hade is a related term of had.



As verbs the difference between had and hade

is that had is past tense of have while hade is to ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.

As a noun hade is

person (in all senses).

had

English

Verb

(head)
  • (have)
  • *1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
  • *:About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton.
  • (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).
  • *2011 , Ben Cooper, The Guardian , 15 April:
  • *:Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
  • As past subjunctive: ‘would have’.
  • *1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
  • *:To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute.
  • *, II.4:
  • *:Julius Cæsar had escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
  • *1849 , , In Memoriam , 24:
  • *:If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.

    • Related terms

    * be had

    Usage notes

    Had'', like (that), is one of a very few words to be correctly used twice in succession in English, e.g. ''He had had several operations previously.

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    Anagrams

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    hade

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) had, hed, hod, from (etyl) . Same as (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (Scotland) * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Person (in all senses).
  • (obsolete, biological) Sex; gender.
  • Order; estate; rank; degree; holy or religious orders.
  • State; condition; quality; kind.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hadien, hodien, from (etyl) . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (had)
  • (obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.

    Verb

    (had)
  • (geology) To slope from the vertical

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) The slope of a vein or fault from the vertical; the complement of the dip

    • Anagrams

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