chad

1. 1.

   a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape

   Broaderpaper

   Narrowerdimpled chadhanging chadswinging chadtri-chad
2. 2.

   a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river

   SynonymsLake Chad

   Broaderlake

   Part ofAfrica
3. 3.

   a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960

   SynonymsRepublic of ChadTchad

   BroaderAfrican country

   Part ofAfrica

   PartsN'Djamena
4. 4.

   a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

   SynonymsChadicChadic language

   BroaderAfroasiatic

   NarrowerWest ChadicBiu-MandaraEast ChadicMasa

Other forms of chad

plural

chads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chad

What does chad mean?

chad means "a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chad?

chad has 1 syllable: chad. In IPA it is /ˈtʃæd/.

What is another word for chad?

Close synonyms include Lake Chad, Republic of Chad, Tchad, Chadic, Chadic language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chad a common word?

chad is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.