hide

1. 1.

   the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

   Synonymsfell

   Broaderanimal skin

   Narrowercowhidegoatskinrawhide
2. 2.

   body covering of a living animal

   Synonymspeltskin

   Broaderbody covering

Other forms of hide

plural

hides·

past tense or participle

hid

past tense or participle

hidden

present participle

hiding·

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 hide

What does hide mean?

hide means "prevent from being seen or discovered". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hide?

hide has 1 syllable: hide. In IPA it is /ˈhaɪd/.

What is another word for hide?

Close synonyms include conceal, hide out, shroud, enshroud, cover. 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.

What is the opposite of hide?

The recorded antonyms are show.

Is hide a common word?

hide 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.

What rhymes with hide?

2 words rhyme with hide. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.