hat

1. 1.

   put on or wear a hat

   “He was unsuitably hatted”

   Broaderwear

   Narrowerbonnet
2. 2.

   furnish with a hat

   Broadersupply

Other forms of hat

plural

hats·

past tense or participle

hatted

present participle

hatting

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 hat

What does hat mean?

hat means "headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hat?

hat has 1 syllable: hat. In IPA it is /ˈhæt/.

What is another word for hat?

Close synonyms include chapeau, lid. 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 hat a common word?

hat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.