hood

Meanings

Noun

• A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
• A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
• An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
• Gangster, thug.
• Neighborhood.
• Person wearing a hoodie.

Verb

• To cover something with a hood.

Adjective

• Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

Related

Similar words

• ghetto
• nabe, neighborhood

Origin

• From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH ("hat") (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀, Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- ("to cover"). More at hat.
• ; compare nabe.
• , influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.