hat

Meanings

Noun

• A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
• A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
• Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
• A hat switch.
• The háček symbol.
• The caret symbol ^.
• User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
• A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Verb

• To place a hat on.
• To appoint as cardinal.
• To shop for hats.
• Past of hit

Related

Similar words

• gold hatband, tuft

Origin

• From Middle English hat, from Old English hæt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz ("hat"), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- ("to guard, cover, care for, protect"). Cognate with North Frisian hat ("hat"), Danish hat ("hat"), Swedish hatt ("hat"), Icelandic hattur ("hat"), Latin cassis ("helmet"), Lithuanian kudas ("bird's crest or tuft"), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀, Persian خود, Welsh cadw ("to provide for, ensure"). Compare also hood.