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Hiding vs Hideaway - What's the difference?

hiding | hideaway |

As nouns the difference between hiding and hideaway

is that hiding is (uncountable) a state of concealment or hiding can be (colloquial|countable) a beating or spanking while hideaway is a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people.

As a verb hiding

is .

As an adjective hideaway is

capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.

hiding

English

Etymology 1

See (Etymology 1)

Verb

(head)
  • Derived terms
    * hiding place * in hiding

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A state of concealment.
  • (countable) A place of concealment.
  • Etymology 2

    See (Etymology 2)

    Noun

  • (colloquial, countable) A beating or spanking.
  • hideaway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people
  • This weekend, let's find some romantic hideaway on the coast.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.
  • * 1980 , Making of America Project, House Beautiful: Volume 122
  • Furnishings by Stanley Furniture Co. include a trundle bed with hideaway mattress that provides space for two overnight guests.
  • * 2006 , Dr Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw (page 53)
  • Thomas Jefferson, who held the first United States patent on a hideaway bed, devised a system of elevating and securing the bed to the ceiling.