Definitions for wade
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Wade, Virginia Wadeverb

   English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

2. wadeverb

   walk (through relatively shallow water)

   "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade the pond"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wadenoun

   an act of wading

2. wadeverb

   to walk through water or something that impedes progress.

3. wadeverb

   to progress with difficulty

4. Wadenoun

   A topographic surname.

5. Wadenoun

   A male given name transferred from the surname.

   In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.

6. Wadenoun

   A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.

7. Etymology: Old English wadan, from wadanan, from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- "to go". Cognates include Latin vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Wadeverb

   Etymology: from vadum, Lat. pronounced wadum.

   1. To walk through the waters; to pass water without swimming.

   We’ll wade to the market-place in Frenchmen’s blood. Sha.

   She waded through the dirt to pluck him off. William Shakespeare.

   I am in blood
   Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more,
   Returning were as tedious as go o’er. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   He staid seven days at the Crassus, until a bridge was made for the transporting of his army, for that the river was not to be waded over. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   Then since fortune’s favours fade;
   You that in her arms do sleep,
   Learn to swim, and not to wade,
   For the hearts of kings are deep. Henry Wotton, Poems.

   With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,
   And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. John Milton.

   It is hard to wade deep in baths where springs arise. Brown.

   Fowls that frequent waters, and only wade, have as well long legs as long necks; and those that are made for swimming have feet like oars. Henry More, Divine Dialogues.

   Those birds only wade in the water, and do not swim. More.

   As when a dabchick waddles through the copse
   On feet and wings, he flies, and wades, and hops. Alexander Pope.

   2. To pass difficultly and labouriously.

   They were not permitted to enter unto war, nor conclude any league of peace, nor to wade through any act of moment between them and foreign states, unless the oracle of God, or his prophets, were first consulted with. Richard Hooker, b. iii.

   I have waded through the whole cause, searching the truth by the causes of truth. Richard Hooker.

   The substance of those controversies whereunto we have begun to wade, be rather of outward things appertaining to the church, than of any thing wherein the being of the church consisteth. Richard Hooker, b. iii.

   Virtue gives herself light, through darkness for to wade. Fairy Queen, b. i.

   I should chuse rather with spitting and scorn to be tumbled into the dust in blood, bearing witness to any known truth of our Lord; than, by a denial of those truths, through blood and perjury wade to a sceptre, and lord it in a throne. South.

   ’Tis not to my purpose to wade into those bottomless controversies, which, like a gulph, have swallowed up so much time of learned men. Decay of Piety.

   The dame
   Now try’d the stairs, and wading through the night,
   Search’d all the deep recess, and issu’d into light. Dryden.

   The wrathful God then plunges from above,
   And where in thickest waves the sparkles drove,
   There lights, and wades through fumes, and gropes his way,
   Half-sing’d, half-stifl’d. Dryden.

   Simonides, the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth, and that he lost himself in the thought. Addison.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wade

   Wade means to walk through a substance, such as water, mud, or snow, that hampers movement or where walking is difficult. It can also refer to the act of progressing with difficulty or moving slowly or awkwardly.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wadenoun

   woad

2. Wadeverb

   to go; to move forward

3. Wadeverb

   to walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc

4. Wadeverb

   hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book

5. Wadeverb

   to pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps

6. Wadenoun

   the act of wading

7. Etymology: [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. vaa, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wade

   wād, v.i. to walk through any substance that yields to the feet, as water: to pass with difficulty or labour.—n. (coll.) a ford.—n. Wā′der, one who wades: a bird that wades, e.g, the heron: (pl.) high waterproof boots used by fishermen for wading. [A.S. wadan, to move; Ger. waten.]

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1. wade

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WADE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wade is ranked #319 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wade surname appeared 97,040 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 33 would have the surname Wade.
   
   64.9% or 63,018 total occurrences were White.
   29% or 28,219 total occurrences were Black.
   2.4% or 2,368 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.3% or 2,271 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.7% or 718 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 456 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for wade »

1. awed

2. Dewa

How to pronounce wade?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wade in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of wade in a Sentence

1. Elizabeth Warren:

   They're trying to overturn Roe v. Wade. It's wrong. And we are going to fight back.

2. Mark Warner:

   Despite his impressive academic credentials, Judge Gorsuch’s record and evasive responses – even refusing to answer questions regarding his views of cases like Roe v. Wade and Citizens United – do not give me confidence that he possesses a judicial philosophy that will serve the American public well.

3. Debra Katz:

   In the aftermath of these hearings, I believe that Christines testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on Supreme Court, he will always have an asterisk next to his name. When he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is, we know his character, and we know what motivates him, and that is important.

4. Kevin McCarthy:

   What House Democrats are bringing before us, it's really a radical bill. It goes beyond Roe V. Wade. It allows abortion on demand up until birth. It shows how far left Democrats have become, regardless of how you feel about the situation, that is not the place I believe Americans are at. But they are going to spend their time pushing that onto the floor.

5. Marlon Jackson:

   Wade was the most adamant person when it came to 2005 and the trial. He was their first defense witness. He was the star witness. He was adamant that nothing ever happened.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wade
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wade
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wade
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wade
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wade
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html